Politics

“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 ...

“It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given ...

"For, as wolves and tigers gorge themselves with flesh and lick their gory chops, so do nations gorge themselves with human victims, not in detail, but in masses, by wholesale." - Henry C. Wright ...

"So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs." - Elbert Hubbard ...

“When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower ...