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

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.
Dick Durbin

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
Thurgood Marshall

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

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

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

Politics have no relation to morals.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Winston Churchill

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles de Gaulle

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse-Tung

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour

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

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Mark Twain

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
Pope John Paul II

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
Russell Baker

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
Jimmy Carter

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.
Lewis Black