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A Diplomat possesses the art
of handling a porcupine
without disturbing the quills |
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A government big enough to give
you everything you want is big
enough to take everything you have |
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Barry Goldwater
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Thomas Jefferson
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A little government and a little luck
are necessary in life but
only a fool trusts either of them. |
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P.J. O'Rourke
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A politician is a fellow
who will lay down
your life for his country |
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A politician thinks of the next election
a statesman of the next generation
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James Freeman Clark
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Abigail Adams
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All that is necessary for the
triumph of evil is that
good men do nothing |
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Burke
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Thomas Jefferson
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Bad politicians are sent
to Washington by good people
who DON’T VOTE |
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William Simon
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo
long past the time when the quo
has lost its status |
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Laurence J. Peter
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Democracy is a device
that ensures that we are governed
no better than we deserve. |
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George Bernard Shaw
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GOVERNMENT - Doing badly
That which doesn't need doing at all |
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Government always finds a need
for whatever money it gets |
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Ronald Reagan
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Ronald Reagan
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Government never makes ends meet
and that is the
first requisite of business |
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Thomas Edison
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Government workers
remind you of French bread -
just one long loaf |
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Having a woman as President
would be OK. Having a man
as First Lady is the problem |
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I never lack for material
for my humor column
when Congress is in session |
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Will Rogers
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I used to say politics was the 2nd oldest
profession, and I have come to know that
it bears a gross similiarity to the first |
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Ronald Reagan
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I want the people of America
to be able to work less for the government
and more for themselves |
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President Calvin Coolidge
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If God had wanted us to vote
He'd have given us
Real candidates |
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If guns are outlawed
only outlaws
will shoot our kids accidently |
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If only men took
the nation's problems as
seriously as they do it's sports |
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If there wasn't a Pearl Harbor
There wouldn't have been
a Hiroshima |
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Napoleon
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It gets harder and harder
to support the government in the manner
to which it has become accustomed |
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Voltaire
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Let men in office
substitute the midnight oil
for the limelight |
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President Calvin Coolidge
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Men play at being God
but lacking God's experience
they wind up as POLITICIANS |
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Henry William King
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Never underestimate
the power of
stupid people in large groups |
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One thing the Republicans
And the Democrats have in common
OUR MONEY |
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Patriotism is easy to understand.
It means looking out for yourself by
looking out for your country. |
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President Calvin Coolidge
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POLITICIAN - He is asked to stand
He wants to sit
He is expected to lie |
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Winston Churchill
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Politicians
always tell the truth
when they call each other liars |
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Politicians, like diapers,
need to be changed often.
And for the same reason. |
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Michiavelli
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Power tends to corrupt
and absolute power
corrupts absolutely |
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Lord Acton
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Remember when a fellow with his ear
to the ground was a politician? Now he's
just a guy looking for a lost contact lens |
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Republicans believe every day is July 4th
Democrats believe every day is April 15th |
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Ronald Reagan
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Separation of church and state is complete
Church teaches money isn't everything
and the government tells us it is |
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The aim of our government
is to protect the weak -
to aid them to become strong |
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President Calvin Coolidge
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The essence of government is power
and power, lodged as it must be in human
hands, will ever be liable to abuse |
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James Madison
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The great problem in government
is that it never
goes BANKRUPT |
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Jerry Brown
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The income tax has made
more liars out of Americans
than golf has |
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Will Rogers
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The NATIONAL DEBT will cause
the demise of ancestor worship
by our descendants |
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The only thing necessary for the
triumph of evil
is for good men to do nothing |
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Edmund Burke
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Lewis H Lapham
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The thing that saves us from the bureacracy
is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy
is the greatest threat to liberty |
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Eugene J. McCarthy
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The trouble with
political jokes
is how often they get elected |
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The whole art of government
consists in the art of
being honest |
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President Thomas Jefferson
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There is one difference between
a tax collector and a taxidermist
- the taxidermist leaves the hide |
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Mortimer Caplan
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There is one thing I can promise you
about the outer-space program
Your tax dollars will go farther |
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Werner von Braun
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This Republic was not
established by cowards
and cowards will not preserve it |
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Elmer Davis
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Charles de Gaulle
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Too bad all the people who
know how to run the country are
busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair |
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George Burns
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Under Republicans man abuses man
Under Democrats just the opposite |
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Vote for the man
who promises least
He'll be least disappointing |
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Bernard Baruch
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Washington is a pool of money
surrounded by people
who wants some |
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David Brinkley
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We can lick gravity,
but sometimes the PAPERWORK
is overwhelming |
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Wernher von Braun
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What the public has,
the public must pay for.
From this there is no escape. |
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President Calvin Coolidge
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What this country needs
is more leaders who know
what this country needs |
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John S. Coleman
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When I was a boy I was told that
anybody could become president
I'm beginning to believe it! |
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Clarence Darrow
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Why don't they just print
our money with a return address on it? |
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Bob Hope
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You don’t make the poor richer
by making the rich poorer
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Winston Churchill
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