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Read my lips: no new taxes. - George Bush

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

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

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Don't vote; it only encourages them. - Unknown

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. - J. William Fulbright

Taxation without representation is tyranny. - James Otis

I'm very strongly against tax increases. - Donald Trump

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons. - Douglas Adams

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

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

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against. - WC Fields

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

I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged. - Roger Jones

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

'Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but death and taxes. - Christopher Bullock

It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack

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

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge. - Lao-tzu

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

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

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

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

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

I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank? - Milton Berle

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

There's nothing like a two-hour tax appointment to make you question your career. - Shawn Hitchins

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

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite so satisfying as an income tax refund. - Unknown

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. - Thomas Jefferson

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary? - Marion Barry

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers

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

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

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

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

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. - Thomas Paine

Where there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. - Plato

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

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

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

Love, like democracy, can survive almost any attack - except neglect, indifference and maybe an arrow in the back. - Unknown

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

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

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. - Douglas Jerrold

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect. But we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in. - John F Kennedy

Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends. - Divyanka Tripathi

A democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. - Gore Vidal

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads. - Andy Borowitz

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood

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

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce

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

It was revealed in a government survey published today that the Prime Minister is doing the work of two men, Laurel and Hardy. - Ronnie Corbett

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

On my income tax 1040 it says, "Check this box if you are blind." I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away. - Tom Lehrer

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. - John Stuart Mill

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan

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

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. - Will Rogers

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. - Paul Harvey

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