Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
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.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth of corporate propaganda against democracy.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
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.
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.
Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.
English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.
I can remember certain Manchester United defeats the way most people remember family bereavements or great political events. The four-nil drubbing by Barcelona, the failure to score against West Ham, the New Year's Day calamity at home to Spurs, the mauling by Middlesborough.
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