Nowhere Man

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Politics is war by other measures. - Steve Bannon

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Without geography, you're nowhere. - Jimmy Buffett

An educated people can be easily governed. - Frederick II

When lost, freedom is difficult to regain. - Slavomir Rawicz

In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

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

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

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

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

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

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. - Albert Camus

Democracy breeds the germs of its own destruction. - V I Lenin

Those who trade liberty for security have neither. - John Adams

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

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. - Robert Frost

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

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? - Charles de Gaulle

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

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

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

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. - Ambrose Bierce

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

Once a man has tasted freedom, he will never be content to be a slave. - Walt Disney

Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. - John Wesley

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

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

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. - Will Rogers

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. - Daniel Webster

In a democracy the majority has every right to act as stupid as the minority. - Frank Dane

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

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

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

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

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

We have within us an extraordinary capacity for love, joy, and unshakable freedom. - Jack Kornfield

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity. - Kay R. Jamison

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw

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

I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. - Bob Hope

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself. - Mark Twain

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

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

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties. - John Milton

Politics: Poli, a Latin word meaning "many"; and tics, meaning "bloodsucking creatures." - Robin Williams

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. - E.B. White

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. - Pericles (430 B.C.)

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch, and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. - Aldous Huxley

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid. - Will Rogers

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

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

The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin

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

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. - Bertrand Russell

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

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

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

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