The repository contains 136 quotes in the category “Politics and Government.”
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How prophetic L’Enfant was when he laid out Washington, D.C., as a city that goes around in circles.
John Mason Brown
1900 — 1969
The only way Democrats will ever get my vote is when they copy my name off my tombstone.
On former Texas Rangers owner George W. Bush:
That a former owner whose team once traded Sammy Sosa could rise to the most powerful office in the world is rather extraordinary given that fans generally lump team owners somewhere below child pornographers and just above telephone solicitors and local cable company directors.
1980:
If I didn’t kick Bill Clinton’s ass every day, he wouldn’t be worth anything.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
1947 —
1980
First rule in government spending: Why build one when you can have two at twice the price?
The Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.
Rep. Ignatius Donnelly
1831 — 1901
An ounce of convention is worth a pound of primaries.
When the voter speaks, I listen, especially when the voter is saying someone else’s name.
Phil Gramm
1942 —
If a bureaucrat had been writing the Ten Commandments, a simple rock slab would not have had nearly enough room. Those simple rules would have read, “Thou Shalt Not, unless you feel strongly to the contrary, or for the following stated exceptions (See Paragraphs 1-10, Subsection A).”
President Ronald Reagan
1911 — 2004
When government offers you something for free, run.
What this country needs more of is more unemployed politicians.
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Liberty produces wealth and wealth destroys liberty.
Henry Demarest Lloyd
1847 — 1903
Politicians are people who get sworn in and then cursed out.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectful.
George Orwell
1903 — 1950
When freedom fails, politicians use that failure to justify abandoning freedom, but when the state fails, politicians use the failure to justify expanding the state.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury.
Sir Alex Tytler
1747 — 1813
A week is a long time in politics.
Prime Minister Harold Wilson
1916 — 1995
Military secrets are the most fleeting of all.
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
President Ronald Reagan
1911 — 2004
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