![]() All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil Liberty consists in doing what one desires. - John Stuart Mill Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen We are all of us the worse for too much liberty. - Terence Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown The Golden Rule has no place in a political campaign. - John J Ingalls The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck Government cannot and must not replace private initiative. - Kim Campbell We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross Commitments the voters don’t know about can't hurt you. - Ogden Nash You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think. - Milton Berle Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. - Bertrand Russell The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. - Theodore White To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation. - Madeleine Albright Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. - Winston Churchill We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. - Will Rogers I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. - Woody Allen My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. - John F Kennedy A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson Animals are like little children a bit. They're simple. They don't have politics driving them. - Annabelle Sabloff 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 The largest party in America is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. - Robert Reich 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 Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin Canada's political parties spend a few years in opposition and then govern as if it's permanent payback time. - Bob Rae 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 It was revealed in a government survey published today that the Prime Minister is doing the work of two men, Laurel and Hardy. - Ronnie Corbett Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan Papers say: 'Congress is deadlocked and can't act.' I think that is the greatest blessing that could befall this country. - Will Rogers In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama I have respect for Senator McCain. I used to like him a lot. I supported him. I raised a lot of money for his campaign against President Obama. - Donald Trump 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 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 see also Government & Sign Sections |
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