Say Goodbye, NDP

Freedom is like oxygen. - Slavomir Rawicz

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

Television is democracy at its ugliest. - Paddy Chayefsky

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

Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. - Graham Greene

A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying

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

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

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. - Robert Frost

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

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

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

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. - George Jean Nathan

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Liberty: One of Imagination's most previous possessions. - Ambrose Bierce

There is no such thing as part freedom: it is all or nothing. - Nelson Mandela

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

World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections. - Danny Strong

They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom. - William Wallace

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

The secret of happiness is freedom; the secret of freedom is courage. - Carrie Jones

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. - Thomas Jefferson

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

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

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney

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

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to get in. - Leonid Brezhnev

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

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

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

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation. - Madeleine Albright

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

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

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles

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

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain

There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit. - Dana Perino

If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise, we do not believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky

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

Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

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

Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while. - Finley P Dunne

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

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy. - Fidel Castro

Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else. - Erica Jong

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. - Robert Kennedy

Canada's political parties spend a few years in opposition and then govern as if it's permanent payback time. - Bob Rae

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

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

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

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool. - Jonathan Swift

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. - Robert F. Kennedy

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

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford

Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy

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

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. - Viktor Frankl

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