Politics

"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die." - Jean-Paul Sartre ...

"Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair." - George Burns ...

"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant." - Charles de Gaulle ...

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

“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” - Plato ...

“In politics, sincerity is everything. Once you can fake that, you’ve got it made.”                 - Groucho Marx ...

“Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions, it only guarantees equality of opportunity.” - Irving Kristol ...

“It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.”    Margaret Mead ...

"Whether the mask is labeled Fascism, Democracy, or Dictatorship of the Proletariat, our great adversary remains the Apparatus — the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier or the battle lines,... but the one ...

"Throw a few chairmen of the board in jail for polluting the air and water, and you’ll see pollution disappear quite rapidly.... You would also probably see some pretty drastic prison reforms." - Fortney H. “Pete” Stark ...