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Politics is war by other measures. - Steve Bannon

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Feudalism: It's your Count that votes - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

In politics the middle way is none at all. - John Adams

Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan

To receive a benefit is to sell your liberty. - Laberius

Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it. - Unknown

A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. - Molly Ivins

America is a land where men govern, but women rule. - John M Brown

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller

The Golden Rule has no place in a political campaign. - John J Ingalls

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. - W.E.B. Du Bois

I greet you in the name of peace, democracy, and freedom. - Nelson Mandela

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover

Liberty: One of Imagination's most previous possessions. - Ambrose Bierce

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing. - Unknown

An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think. - Milton Berle

Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches. - Will Rogers

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. - Edward Abbey

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. - Will Rogers

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. - Lao Tzu

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. - Will Rogers

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to get in. - Leonid Brezhnev

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - Bertrand Russell

Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands. - Jesse Helms

American Politics: A form of socialism for the rich, including the politicians. - Gregory Nunn

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - H L Mencken

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. - Bertrand Russell

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are. - Subhash Bose

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. - Laurence J Peter

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people. - Oscar Wilde

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers

Everyone wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. - Werner Finck

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. - Harry S Truman

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. - Horace Mann

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. - Tom Robbins

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. - Dale Carnegie

Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

Folks who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign. - Milton Berle

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. - Henry Brougham

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? - Robert Orben

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. - Victor Hugo

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. - Ronald Reagan

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. - Reinhold Niebuhr

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. - Lyndon B. Johnson

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - John Adams

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay? It's, like, incredible. - Donald Trump

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. - John W. Gardner