politics

politics

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.
Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. By Any Means Necessary
The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
The major problem&mdash;<em>one</em> of the major problems, for there are several&mdash;one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must <em>want</em> to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected. Breakfast Of Champions
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
As government expands, liberty contracts.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....
Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. The Art of War
It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. Major Barbara
How do you tell a Communist? Well, it&rsquo;s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It&rsquo;s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It&rsquo;s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have.
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.
Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.
We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others
No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear