Nowhere Man

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

The bad guys always get a vote. - Navy saying

Liberty is the right to silence. - Unknown

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. - John Adams

Television is democracy at its ugliest. - Paddy Chayefsky

Information is the currency of democracy. - Unknown

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

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

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

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller

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

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx

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

An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain

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

Commitments the voters don’t know about can't hurt you. - Ogden Nash

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. - Reinhold Niebuhr

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. - Edith Sitwell

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

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers

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

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. - Bernard Baruch

The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating. - Andrew Goodman

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

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. - Ben Franklin

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke

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

A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley

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

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been. - Robert Brault

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. - Thomas Jefferson

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. - H L Mencken

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. - Malcolm de Chazal

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart. - Paul McCartney

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. - Will Rogers

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat

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

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. - John P Barlow

We don't have inflation because we are living too well. We have it because government is living too well. - Ronald Reagan

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. - Johnny Carson

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. - Thurgood Marshall

Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. - Ronald Reagan

Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self control. Energy within and energy without. - Ymber Delecto

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads. - Andy Borowitz

Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom. - Jerry Seinfeld

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. - John Quincy Adams

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

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. - Louis D. Branders

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

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

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

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