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

Politics have no relation to morals.
Niccolo Machiavelli on politics

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Alexander Hamilton on politics

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich on politics

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky on politics

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
P. J. O'Rourke on politics

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
Ronald Reagan on politics

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
John F. Kennedy on politics

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante Alighieri on politics

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

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Khalil Gibran on politics

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle on politics

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers on politics

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd Wright on politics

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

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
W. C. Fields on politics

A healthy democracy requires a decent society it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
Charles W. Pickering on politics

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai E. Stevenson on politics

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman on politics

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