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Government & Politics CONGRESS.SYS Corrupted: Re-boot Washington D.C. (Y/N) The gross national product is gross. Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have lost sight of your aim. Santyana Whoever likes laws or sausages shouldn't watch them being made. Bismarck Main's Law: For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. Mitchell's Law of Committees: Any simple problem can be made insoluble if enough people look at it. The gross national product is gross. Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie!" ... till you can find a rock. Born Free ... taxed to death. Diplomacy - the art of letting someone have your way. If all else fails, blame it on the government. Rule of Defactualization- Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies. Pro is to con as progress is to Congress. Jack Kevorkian for White House Physician. A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell and make you real happy to be on your way. Men are above women in politics because men are warriors; not because men were in some societies the bread winners. Ali A. Mazrui Conservatism is for the close minded and the Republicans. Paul Brown Assuming the left wing or the right wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles. Pat Paulsen The Government is non-profit. It doesn't make sense! Radicalism is not a team sport. Ken Rickard The conservative movement is a last ditch effort to preserved the moral structure of our beloved nation. God bless the coming age of Anarchy! American satirist The government is best which governs least. Henry David Thoreau Conservative Republican - a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. Mort Sahl Liberal Republican - a man who believes some things should be done for the first time -just not now. Mort Sahl I belong to no organized political party. I'm a Democrat. Will Rogers A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted - in mid-air. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt If a politician says, "Do this ...," ask a) What do you want? b) How much does it cost? and c) Who pays? Russian proverb A pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him, is a Communist. Alvin Dark Some people are liberals ... the rest are right. Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. Edward Bulwer-Lytton The middle cleave to euphemisms not just because they're an aid in avoiding facts. They like them also because they assist their social yearnings towards pomposity. This is possible because most euphemisms permit the speaker to multiply syllables, and the middle class confuses sheer numerousness with weight and value. Paul Fussell Capital (n) - The seat of misgovernment. Ambrose Bierce A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on Paul for support. George Bernard Shaw Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. Alan Coren He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself. Philip Massinger Idiot (n) - Member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has been dominant and controlling. Ambrose Bierce If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking. General George Patton It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. Eugene McCarthy Now when I bore people at a party, they think it's their fault. Henry Kissinger Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. John F. Kennedy Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason. Voltaire Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad name. Henry Kissinger Taxation with representation ain't so hot either. Gerald F. Lieberman No man is good enough to govern another man without that others consent. Abraham Lincoln The only thing we learn from a new election is that we learned nothing from the old. Gerald Barzun A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain. Lazarus Long The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. Edith Sitwell Let them eat cake. Marie-Antoinette Taxation without representation is tyranny. James Otis In a mature society, "civil servant" is semantically equal to "civil master." Lazarus Long There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. Arthur C. Clarke The world must be made safe for democracy. Woodrow Wilson Liberty does not work as well in practice as it does in speeches. Will Rogers Television is democracy at its ugliest. Paddy Chayefsky People who like this sort of thing will find this is the sort of thing they like. Abraham Lincoln It is much safer to obey than to rule. Thomas A Kempis If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. Hyman Rickover If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. H.L. Mencken Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way. Isaac Goldberg Communism is like one big phone company. Lenny Bruce Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. Herbert Hoover A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures. Thomas Carlyle A conservative is a liberal who got mugged last night. Rizzo The new Congressmen say they're going to turn the government around. I hope I don't get run over again. Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. George Burns If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. Thomas Jefferson A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. Milton Berle The declaration of Pericles in his great funeral oration holds for all time: "Happiness is Freedom, and Freedom is Courage." That is the fundamental equation of all politics and all human government, and any system which ignores it is built on sand. Jan Christian Smuts To tax and to please, no more than to love and be wise, is not given to men. Edmund Burke The public is a ferocious beast: One must either chain it up or flee from it. Voltaire You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. James Thurber Society attacks early when the individual is helpless. B.F. Skinner Victory is a political fiction. To be free it is not enough to beat the system; one must beat the system everyday. Man is by nature a political animal. Aristotle One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. Bertrand Russell Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavored and colored, and put into cans. Mencken Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. Franz Kafka Instead of giving a politician the key to the city, it might be better to change the locks. Doug Larson Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel. Mencken Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. Tolstoy Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. Robert Lewis Stevenson Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. Thomas Paine Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. John Kenneth Galbraith Politics (n) - Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. Ambrose Bierce Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. Douglas Adams Government is too big and important to be left to the politicians. Chester Bowles Copyright İRonald W. Sitton, 2009. Revised 022606 - http://southerner.net/sitron/wis/wgovpol.html |