Just cut and paste the authors name to find the rest of that persons quotes
Politics/Government
- The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
- -- Mark Russell
- If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
- --
Seen on a bumper sticker
- A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
- -- George Bernard Shaw
- Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
- -- George Bernard Shaw
- Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
- -- George Bernard Shaw
- If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
- -- Harry Shearer
- In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
- -- Adlai Stevenson
- The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
- -- Adlai Stevenson
- Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
- -- Dr. Strangelove
- When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
- -- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict
- That government is best which governs least.
- -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849
- Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
- -- Harry S. Truman
- The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
- -- Mark Twain
- Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
- -- Oscar Wilde
- When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow the Government to deploy those technologies.
- -- Philip Zimmermann
- The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
- -- Slavoj Zizek
SECTION PAGE
NEXT