Political Quotes - Page 39

• The one thing government has which we (you or I or any corporation) DON'T have, is the ability to use deadly force to accomplish its goals.

  Neal Boortz

  Government, Goal, Use

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• There is no limit to the hunger politicians have for the money you've worked so hard for. ... You can tell them to take a hike, but then the guns come out.

  Neal Boortz

  Gun, Limits, Hunger

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• Congress is a Mafia running a protection racket.. .

  John P. Wheeler III

  Running, Mafia, Protection

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• Our current tax code is one that was designed by and for the benefit of politicians and lobbyists. It punishes achievement and rewards laziness. It punishes the voting blocks unimportant to politicians, and rewards voting blocks who keep them in office.

  Neal Boortz

  Block, Office, Achievement

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• Politicians don't like empowered individuals.

  Neal Boortz

  Politician, Individual, Empowered

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• Confronted with economic problems, politicians always blame the private sector first ... [even] blaming the problem on the solution.

  Richard L. Gordon

  Firsts, Blame, Problem

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• There is no company - no corporation on earth that engages in accounting fraud to the extent the Imperial Federal Government of the United Sates does. Not many congressmen are willing to come forward with the details.

  Neal Boortz

  Government, Details, Doe

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• I don't think it's bribery; I think it's extortion. Bribery, you know, is when the person that's giving the money does it voluntarily. What it is in Washington is extortion because they all ask for the money.

  John McCain

  Thinking, Giving, Doe

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• I have come to believe that politicians are in the business of 'marketing' their product to the public, by exaggerating threats and over-selling government solutions.

  Arnold Kling

  Believe, Government, Marketing

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• A lot of what is called 'public service' consists of making hoops for other people to jump through. It is a great career for those who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

  Thomas Sowell

  Careers, People, Public Service

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• [Politicians] - they'll give you everything you want to your face - and then, as you walk away, they'll shoot you in the back because it's fun to watch you die.

  Robert Crandall

  Fun, Giving, Watches

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• No one talks about the real ethics disaster in Washington. It's that many members of Congress will listen to any argument against a bill except for two: that it's not moral or that it's not Constitutional.

  Ron Paul

  Real, Two, Bills

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• The closer one gets to elections or wars, the further one gets from the truth.

  Tony Blankley

  War, Election

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• A Diogenesian search for an honest person would rarely lead to the author of a memoir.

  Tony Blankley

  Honest, Memoir, Persons

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• There are people in Congress who aren't very bright. In fact, some of them are just plain brain-dead.

  Neal Boortz

  People, Brain, Facts

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• I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority.

  Tony Blankley

  Insanity, Minorities, Sometimes

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• Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Colin Campbell says that every member of the Georgia General Assembly with an IQ above 85 should be required to wear a crash helmet. That should take about ... oh, say 15 helmets?

  Neal Boortz

  Atlanta, Georgia, Constitution

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• A man on his owns knows that he is best advised to leave his dumbbell neighbors alone. But let him join a political party, and he fantasizes that he has the right and the power to tell everyone on the block what to do.

  Bill Bonner

  Block, Party, Men

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• In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish.

  Ze'ev Chafets

  Fishing, Genius, Fishes

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• There is a small minority of well-educated people with relatively sensible views on economics, and an extremely tiny minority of economists with highly sensible views. Then there's everybody else. ... To win, a politician needs to please the median voter. It makes little difference if a few thousand economists think you a fool.

  Bryan Caplan

  Winning, Thinking, Views

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• The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint.

  George Will

  Media, Culture, Today

  George Will (2008). “One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation”, p.175, Crown Forum

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• For the average person walking down a dark street late at night, a promise from a politician is worth far less than a .38 Special.

  James Bovard

  Dark, Night, Average

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• For years, liberals have demonstrated a near religious devotion to the cause of 'cleaning up elections' with campaign finance reform, the wondrous panacea that would finally rescue our great country from corruption in politics. ... How anyone could believe that corrupt politicians could or would legislate away their own corruption is completely beyond me.

  Anthony Gregory

  Country, Religious, Believe

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• Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to declare the obvious superiority of Western culture to Islamic culture.

  Edwin A. Locke

  Islamic, Western Culture, May

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• If I was to interrupt this article every few sentences, asking you whether or not I was making a good impression on you, I hope and believe that you would think I was a servile jerk. Yet this is what our politicians are doing in every speech.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, Thinking, Asking

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