QuotaBillsAll politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity! - Unknown
Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley
There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli
In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte
From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams
Liberty is never being too sure you're right. - Learned Hand
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. - W.E.B. Du Bois
There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. - Wole Soyinka
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. - Robert Frost
It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern. - Karen Bass
You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman
There is no such thing as part freedom: it is all or nothing. - Nelson Mandela
We have the best government in the world... that money can buy. - Mark Twain
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot
It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it. - Greek Proverb
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. - Edward Abbey
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. - Will Rogers
Ultimatum: In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong
Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. - Raisa M. Gorbachev
In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. - Abraham Lincoln
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. - Henrik Ibsen
Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true. - Buddha
I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. - Dan Quayle
In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. - Bernard Baruch
A good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. - H L Mencken
Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman
Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. - Laurence J Peter
Freedom rings when you realize you can become what you never thought you could become. - Richie Norton
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. - Karl Marx
What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary? - Marion Barry
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. - Thomas Jefferson
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton
So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray
I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams
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
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 hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. - Theodor Adorno
The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman
Love, like democracy, can survive almost any attack - except neglect, indifference and maybe an arrow in the back. - Unknown
Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship. - Patrick Henry
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet
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
If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard
Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends. - Divyanka Tripathi
The most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip. - Johnny Isakson
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedom, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. - Abraham Lincoln
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. - Bill Vaughan
Papers say: 'Congress is deadlocked and can't act.' I think that is the greatest blessing that could befall this country. - Will Rogers
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. - John Adams
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
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov