Good Stuff Or Else

Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity! - Unknown

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

The world is governed by opinion. - William E. Channing

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

Erection: When Japanese go to vote. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. - John Adams

The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley

An educated people can be easily governed. - Frederick II

Liberty consists in doing what one desires. - John Stuart Mill

In Congress, it's all pork, all the time. - Jim Cooper

Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen

Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno

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

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

Bulldozing: Going to sleep during a political speech. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenel

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. - James Reston

We have the best government in the world... that money can buy. - Mark Twain

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? - Charles de Gaulle

Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. - John Wesley

Ultimatum: In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. - William E. Simon

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

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. - Frederick The Great

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else. - Henry Hazlitt

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. - Will Rogers

Democracy is also a form of religion; it is the worship of jackals by jackasses. - H L Mencken

A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson

A good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. - H L Mencken

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. - Will Rogers

Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw

Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini

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

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. - Winston Churchill

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. - Woody Allen

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. - Bertrand Russell

Passover affirms the great truth that liberty is the inalienable right of every human being. - Morris Joseph

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself. - Mark Twain

I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton

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

Democracy is very different in U.S. and A. from Kazakhstan. In America, woman can vote, but horse cannot! - Borat Sagdiyev

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

The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy. - Charles J Hitch

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. - Clare Boothe Luce

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. - Theodor Adorno

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

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. - Benjamin Franklin

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. - Malcolm Muggeridge