Afghanistan Map - Revised Edition

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

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

My first occupation was to map the country. - John Hanning Speke

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan

All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown

To stay on the map you've got to keep showing up. - Peter Gallagher

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

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenel

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. - James Reston

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. - Raisa M. Gorbachev

The media landscape of the present day is a map in search of a territory. - J.G. Ballard

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

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. - Dan Quayle

An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing. - Johnnie Cochran

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation. - Meryl Streep

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. - Tom Robbins

I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again. - Kevin O'Leary

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. - Christopher Columbus

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

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. - Maggie Gallagher

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

I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush. - Werner Herzog

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur. - Pablo Picasso

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

If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British red as possible. - Cecil Rhodes

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

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

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

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

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see. - Angelina Jolie

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