We're Not Gonna Take It

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. - Kahlil Gibran

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

The freedom of birds is an insult to me. - Cormac McCarthy

Information is the currency of democracy. - Unknown

In politics the middle way is none at all. - John Adams

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. - Hannah Arendt

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader

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

The Golden Rule has no place in a political campaign. - John J Ingalls

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. - W.E.B. Du Bois

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

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenel

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

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

Men are governed only by serving them; the rule is without exception. - V. Cousin

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

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. - Robert Byrne

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong

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

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. - Frederick The Great

This is your victory! It is the victory of the cause of freedom in every land. - Winston Churchill

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

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. - Hans Christian Andersen

A good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. - H L Mencken

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

The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street. - Kin Hubbard

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

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. - Marshall Lumsden

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

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. - William Glasser

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

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. - James Bovard

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. - H L Mencken

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

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. - Henry Brougham

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

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans. - Kin Hubbard

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

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. - H L Mencken

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

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

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

Freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down the fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged. - Alice Walker

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 never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. - Thomas Jefferson

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

When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot. - Sergey Galitsky

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

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

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

Papers say: 'Congress is deadlocked and can't act.' I think that is the greatest blessing that could befall this country. - Will Rogers

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

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

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed. - Publilius Syrus

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

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