Political Quotes.

[davemac]

Some of these quotes are very old. All appear to be true.



1. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But
I repeat myself.
- -Mark Twain
2. We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like
a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
- -Winston Churchill
3. *A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the
support of Paul.
- -George Bernard Shaw
4. *A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which
debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
- - G. Gordon Liddy
5. *Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on
what to have for dinner.
- -James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
6. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich
countries to rich people in poor countries.
- -Douglas Casey, Classmate of W.J.Clinton at Georgetown U. (1992)
7. *Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys
to teenage boys.
- -P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
8. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to
live at the expense of everybody else.
- -Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
9. *Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short
phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it
stops moving, subsidize it.
- - Ronald Reagan (1986)
10. *I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
- -Will Rogers
11. *If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it
costs when it's free.
- -P.J. O'Rourke
12. *If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If
you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you
want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't
want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist.
- -Joseph Sobran, Editor of the National Review at one time (1995)
13. *In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as
possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
- -Voltaire (1764)
14. *Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean
politics won't take an interest in you.
- -Pericles (430 B.C.)
15. *No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is
in session.
- -Mark Twain (1866)
16. *Talk is cheap-except when Congress does it.
- -(Unknown)
17. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite
at one end and no responsibility at the other.
- -Ronald Reagan
18. *The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings
The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
- -Winston Churchill
19. *The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that,the
taxidermist leaves the skin.
- -Mark Twain
20. *The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to
fill the world with fools.
- -Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
21. *There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.
- -Mark Twain
22. *What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
- - Edward Langley, Artist 1928-1995