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Politics is war by other measures. - Steve Bannon

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

I am not a politician, but a soldier. - Idi Amin

Crime does not pay as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman

In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte

A penny saved is a Congressional oversight. - Hal Luyah

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

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

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

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

All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken

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

Most bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson

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

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost

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

I don't go around signin' no political documentaries. - Archie Bunker

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

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

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

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way. - Isaac Goldberg

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. - Mark Twain

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

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. - Louis D. Brandeis

For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. - Bob Wells

To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it. - Greek Proverb

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

A politician is a man who approaches every problem with an open mouth. - Adlai Stevenson

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

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

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

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. - P Chidambaram

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. - Theodore White

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one. - Herbert C Hoover

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

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

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. - Aldous Huxley

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

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

Fang and I are always fighting. When we get up in the morning, we don't kiss; we touch gloves. - Phyllis Diller

So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins

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

Get thee glass eyes;
And, like a scurvy politician, seem
To see the things thou dost not. - William Shakespeare

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. - Thomas Paine

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

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. - Caskie Stinnett

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

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. - H L Mencken

Demagogue: A politician who can rock the boat and persuade everyone else that they're in a terrible storm - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

We don't have inflation because we are living too well. We have it because government is living too well. - Ronald Reagan

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I would gladly eat a network executive or a politician. - Marty Feldman

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

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

NEED now means wanting someone else's money. GREED means wanting to keep your own. COMPASSION is when a politician arranges the transfer. - Joseph Sobran

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