Say Goodbye, NDP

Freedom is from within. - Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. - Isaiah Berlin

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty. - Terence

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

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

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

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. - Zhou Enlai

Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey

Political War: One in which everyone shoots from the lip - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern. - Karen Bass

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown

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

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken

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

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

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

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers

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

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing. - Ayn Rand

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

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Freedom of the press is useless when people do not understand what they read. - Gerald F Lieberman

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. - Henrik Ibsen

The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old. - American Proverb

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

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

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

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

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

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. - J Krishnamurti

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself. - Jack Nicholson

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. - Patrick Henry

If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? - George Carlin

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

I am on your Walk of Fame in Toronto. My sense of humour is Canadian. But I can't vote. - Donald Sutherland

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

Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. - Jack Vance

In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism. - Teresa Heinz

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. - Thornton Wilder

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

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. - Malcolm de Chazal

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves. - Rollo May

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

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

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. - Virginia Woolf

Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently, He thought it worth the risk. - C S Lewis

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

Be known for pleasing others, espcecially if you govern them... Ruling others has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else. - Baltasar Gracian

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. - Margaret Atwood

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. - Yasser Arafat

We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible. - Indira Gandhi

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

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

Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien