Valtider

"Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy."
-David Korten

"Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel"
-John Quinton

"It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected.
The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen"
-George E. MacDonald

"If you don't know what your government is doing, you don't live in a democracy."
-Jane Anne Morris

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."
-P.J. O'Rourke

"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks"
-Doug Larson

"If you ask the government for permission to protest it, you deserve to be told no."
-Manhattan Libertarian Party Chair, Jim Lesczynski

"The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too"
-Oscar Levant

"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

"I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians"
-Charles de Gaulle

"A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time"
-Alfred E. Wiggam

"Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for the law."
-former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
-President Ronald Reagan

"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the State becomes lawless and corrupt."
-Gandhi

"I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and I pitied it."
-Henry David Thoreu

"Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason"
-Unknown

"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river"
-Nikita Khrushchev

"George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles"
-Unknown

"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

"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


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