“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” Plato By Bishop Duke Akamisoko

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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato

You can’t trust politicians. It doesn’t matter who makes a political speech. It’s all lies – and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
Bob Geldof

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom.
Plato

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.
Albert Einstein

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Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Ronald Reagan

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
Anonymous

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us.
Barack Obama

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
Oscar Ameringer

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
Ernest Benn

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule — and both commonly succeed, and are right.
H.L. Mencken

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
E.O. Wilson

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.
Winston Churchill

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
Robert Byrne

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
Don Lucchese, The Godfather, Part III

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Winston Churchill

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
Murray Kempton

We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them. Again most times we cannot solve the problems with the same people who created them.
Bishop Duke Akamisoko