Good Stuff Or Else

Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone

Liberty is the right to silence. - Unknown

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

One cannot govern with "buts." - Charles de Gaulle

Voters want a fraud they can believe in. - Will Durst

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

An educated people can be easily governed. - Frederick II

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. - Khalil Gibran

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

Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown

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

Sudafed: Brought litigation against a government official - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. - George Will

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

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. - Kin Hubbard

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. - Billy Boy Franklin

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

Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness. - Archie Bunker

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. - Aristotle

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

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. - Dan Quayle

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. - Bertrand Russell

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

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

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

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

The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out. - Vyacheslav Molotov

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

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

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. - Will Rogers

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

Animals are like little children a bit. They're simple. They don't have politics driving them. - Annabelle Sabloff

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

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

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. - Maggie Gallagher

Politics: Poli, a Latin word meaning "many"; and tics, meaning "bloodsucking creatures." - Robin Williams

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

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. - Pericles (430 B.C.)

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. - Thurgood Marshall

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman

Taxpayer - someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan

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

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. - Cal Thomas

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet

Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere

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

We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we fight, without seeking our own interests. - Oliver Cromwell

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

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. - John Quincy Adams

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. - Bill Vaughan

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

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. - Louis D. Branders

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. - Joe Biden

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home. - Winston Churchill

Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi