Politics

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

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

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

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

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

“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 ...

"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 ...

"Should we believe self-serving, ever-growing drug-enforcement and drug-treatment bureaucrats, whose pay and advancement depend on finding more and more people to arrest and "treat”? More Americans die in just one day in prisons, penitentiaries, jails, and stockades than have ever ...

“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 ...

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