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All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson

The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley

Voters want a fraud they can believe in. - Will Durst

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. - Molly Ivins

Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey

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

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

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. - Theodore White

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. - Will Rogers

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself. - Jack Nicholson

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. - Harry S Truman

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P.J. O'Rourke

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

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. - Thomas Paine

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

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. - Clare Boothe Luce

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

Politics is the only business where doing nothing other than making the other guy look bad is an acceptable outcome. - Mark Warner

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

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet

It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey

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

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

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

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - John Adams

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

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home. - Winston Churchill

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

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

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