We're Not Gonna Take It

All 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