We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Oliver Goldsmith
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Aldous Huxley
In war, truth is the first casualty.
Aeschylus
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
Ronald Reagan
We must not look to government to solve our problems. Government is the problem.
Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Thomas Sowell
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill
Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
Will Rogers
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Plato
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de Gaulle
As government expands liberty contracts.
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
Otto von Bismarck
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
William E. Simon
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
Ben Okri
Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.
Henri Queuille
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Henry Kissinger
