Politics

"Throw a few chairmen of the board in jail for polluting the air and water, and you’ll see pollution disappear quite rapidly.... You would also probably see some pretty drastic prison reforms." - Fortney H. “Pete” Stark ...

“It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given ...

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

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

"For, as wolves and tigers gorge themselves with flesh and lick their gory chops, so do nations gorge themselves with human victims, not in detail, but in masses, by wholesale." - Henry C. Wright ...

"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 ...

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

“It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.”    Margaret Mead ...

"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die." - Jean-Paul Sartre ...

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