Pandemic Treaty

Diplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. - Kahlil Gibran

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

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

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

Liberty consists in doing what one desires. - John Stuart Mill

In Congress, it's all pork, all the time. - Jim Cooper

Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it. - Unknown

Liberty is never being too sure you're right. - Learned Hand

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

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate, VII

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

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

I greet you in the name of peace, democracy, and freedom. - Nelson Mandela

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. - Thomas Campbell

Liberty: One of Imagination's most previous possessions. - Ambrose Bierce

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot

World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. - Mark Twain

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think. - Milton Berle

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. - Louis D. Brandeis

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. - Thomas Jefferson

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

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

The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old. - American Proverb

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. - Mahatma Gandhi

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are. - Subhash Bose

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. - J Krishnamurti

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

Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise, we do not believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky

So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray

It's our experience that political leaders don't always mean the opposite of what they say. - Abba Eban

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

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. - Viktor Frankl

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. - Thornton Wilder

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev

Americans should not go abroad to slay dragons they do not understand in the name of spreading democracy. - John Quincy Adams

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

Why didn't the armistice treaty require the Germans to lay down their accordions along with their arms? - Bill Bryson

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

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

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

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay

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

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

Love, like democracy, can survive almost any attack - except neglect, indifference and maybe an arrow in the back. - Unknown

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding. - Louis D Brandeis

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. - Napoleon Bonaparte

A democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. - Gore Vidal

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. - Sigmund Freud

I am quite sure now that often in matters concerning religion and politics, a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkeys. - Mark Twain

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford