Politics

“Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions, it only guarantees equality of opportunity.” - Irving Kristol ...

“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” - Plato ...

“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." - P.J. O'Rourke ...

"Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair." - George Burns ...

"Whenever you hear man speak of his love for country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it." - H.L. Mencken ...

"Should we believe self-serving, ever-growing drug-enforcement and drug-treatment bureaucrats, whose pay and advancement depend on finding more and more people to arrest and "treat”? More Americans die in just one day in prisons, penitentiaries, jails, and stockades than have ever ...

“In politics, sincerity is everything. Once you can fake that, you’ve got it made.”                 - Groucho Marx ...

“When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower ...

"Whether the mask is labeled Fascism, Democracy, or Dictatorship of the Proletariat, our great adversary remains the Apparatus — the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier or the battle lines,... but the one ...

"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant." - Charles de Gaulle ...