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| Joseph Stalin
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
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| Robert Byrne
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
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| Thomas Jefferson
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
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| John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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| Andrew Jackson
I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
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| Dante Alighieri
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
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| Ronald Reagan
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
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| Dante Alighieri
The secret of getting things done is to act!
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| Milton Friedman
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
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| Newt Gingrich
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
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| Thomas Sowell
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
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| H. L. Mencken
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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| Edmund Burke
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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| Doug Larson
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
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| John Quincy Adams
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
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| Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
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| Hunter S. Thompson
Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
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| Niccolo Machiavelli
Politics have no relation to morals.
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| P. J. O'Rourke
The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.
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| Harry S Truman
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
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| Barry Goldwater
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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| Hyman Rickover
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
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| Ambrose Bierce
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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| Winston Churchill
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
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| Woodrow Wilson
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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