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1. "A liberal is a socialist with a wife and two children."

Anon.

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

2. "Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart."

Yasir Arafat

Quotations about: History and Nations

3. "Practical politics consists in ignoring facts."

Henry Brooks Adams

4. "The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead."

Kurt Vonnegut

Quotations about: Success and Fame

5. "Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception."

George Orwell, "Collected Essays"

Quotations about: Patriotism

6. "In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's."

Jean Rostand, "The Substance of Man"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

7. "An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle."

Walter Bagehot, "The English Constitution"

8. "Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power."

Aldous Huxley

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

9. "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

John Adams, "The Works of John Adams"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

10. "I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."

John Adams, "The Adams Family Correspondence"

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude -:- Peace and War

11. "Liberal - a power worshipper without power."

George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant"

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

12. "Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy."

P.J. O`Rourke, "Parliament of Whores"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

13. "Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us."

P.J. O`Rourke, "Parliament of Whores"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

14. "Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and their politicians as jokes."

Will Rogers

Quotations about: Wit and Humor

15. "A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past."

Fidel Castro

Quotations about: Authority, Government

16. "At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. No amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point."

Winston Churchill

Quotations about: Authority, Government

17. "Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

18. "Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything."

Frank Dane

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

19. "The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces."

Maureen Murphy

Quotations about: Woman and Man

20. "Crime does not pay ... as well as politics."

Alfred E. Newman

Quotations about: Law and Crime

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21. "Politicians are the best alternative to warlords that we have yet conceived."

Stephen Covington

Quotations about: Peace and War

22. "When a politician wrestles with his conscience, he usually wins."

Joseph Sobran

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

23. "Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation."

Kim Stanley Robinson, "Red Mars"

Quotations about: History and Nations

24. "The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world."

Jimmy Carter

Quotations about: Justice

25. "A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Quotations about: Peace and War

26. "International law is that law which the wicked do not obey and the righteous do not enforce."

Abba Eban

Quotations about: Law and Crime

27. "Fish begins to stink at the head."

Anon.

Quotations about: Authority, Government

28. "Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet."

John Ralston Saul

29. "Fascism is capitalism plus murder."

Upton Sinclair

Quotations about: Law and Crime

30. "In America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, The Party can always find you!"

Yakov Smirnoff

31. "War is merely the continuation of policy by other means."

Carl von Clausewitz

Quotations about: Peace and War

32. "On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!"

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Quotations about: Human

33. "The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy."

Edwin W. Edwards

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

34. "In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing."

Anatol France

Quotations about: Authority, Government -:- Richness and Money

35. "An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth."

Henry Wotton

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

36. "Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security."

Alexander Haig

Quotations about: History and Nations

37. "Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."

William Ewart Gladstone

Quotations about: Trust

38. "The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people."

James A. Garfield

Quotations about: Peace and War -:- Authority, Government

39. "America is a country which produces citizens who will cross the ocean to fight for democracy but won't cross the street to vote."

Bill Vaughan

Quotations about: History and Nations

40. "A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually."

Abba Eban

Quotations about: Various

41. "A statesman shears the sheep. A politician skins them."

Austin O`Malley

Quotations about: Authority, Government

42. "The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget."

John Morley

Quotations about: Memory

43. "A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday."

Russell Baker

44. "Politics is a substitute for violence."

Dick Gephardt

45. "Votes should be weighed not counted."

Friedrich von Schiller

Quotations about: Authority, Government

46. "Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time."

Anon.

47. "Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms."

Aristotle

Quotations about: Authority, Government

48. "A diplomat is someone who can speak without saying anything."

Anon.

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

49. "The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid."

Art Spander

50. "An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead."

Nancy Mitford

Quotations about: Authority, Government

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