PoliTicAlley Correct-?
What's to say, ironically these, for the biggest part, are truisms.
The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly' meaning 'many', and the word 'tics' meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.”
-Larry Hardiman
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
- Will Rogers
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
- Will Rogers
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
- Will Rogers
We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.
-- Will Rogers
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
- Ronald Reagan
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
- Ronald Reagan
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
- PJ O'Rourke
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
- Gore Vidal
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
- Chester Bowles
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
- Dennis Miller
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
- H. L. Mencken
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
-Cullen Hightower
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
-Charles Peters
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
- Mark B. Cohen
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
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
- C. P. Snow
-Larry Hardiman
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
- Will Rogers
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
- Will Rogers
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
- Will Rogers
We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.
-- Will Rogers
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
- Ronald Reagan
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
- Ronald Reagan
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
- PJ O'Rourke
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
- Gore Vidal
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
- Chester Bowles
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
- Dennis Miller
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
- H. L. Mencken
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
-Cullen Hightower
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
-Charles Peters
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
- Mark B. Cohen
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
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
- C. P. Snow