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

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

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

Don't vote; it only encourages them. - Unknown

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

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

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck

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

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way. - Isaac Goldberg

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

Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches. - Will Rogers

Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness. - Archie Bunker

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin

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

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation. - Madeleine Albright

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

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

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers

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

Ronald Reagan knew who he was. Barack Obama is still working through that equation politically. - Joe Scarborough

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

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

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

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

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

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. - Theodor Adorno

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman

Taxpayer - someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle

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

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. - Lyndon B. Johnson

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce

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

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

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