A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
-- G. Gordon Liddy

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
-- Douglas Casey (1992)

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
-- P.J. O'Rourke

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
-- Frederic Bastiat

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.
-- Ronald Reagan (1986)

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the acts.
-- Will Rogers

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
-- P.J. O'Rourke

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
-- Pericles (430 B.C.)

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
-- Mark Twain (1866)

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
-- Mark Twain

Talk is cheap-except when Congress does it. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
--Winston Churchill

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-- Mark Twain

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.
--Winston Churchill

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
-- Edward Langley



Cat

Thanks Cat.  These were pretty good ;D

"The problem with political jokes is they get elected." - Henry Cate

"The major problem --- one of the major problems, for there are several --- one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

To summarize: it is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem." - DNA

Phil

I'ma confused.  ??? :-/

"I did NOT have sex with that woman!"-Bill (Slick Willy) Clinton

Very funny Cat..
Mind if I add a few more?

"In my country we go to prison first and then become President."
--Nelson Mandela

"The most terrifying words in the English langauge are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
--Ronald Reagan.

"A fool and his money are soon elected."
--Will Rogers.

and my favourite...

"Americans have different ways of saying things. They say "elevator", we say "lift" ... they say "President", we say "stupid psychopathic git."
--Alexai Sayle.

"I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, two become a law firm and three or more become a congress." -John Adams

In 2 years, this dunce, this yo yo from Texas has taken us from a prosperous nation at peace to a broken nation at war
- Hunter S. Thompson


"Here's good news I guess, New York City will host the 2004 Republican convention. We lured the Republicans here the old fashioned way, with bribe money and hookers. ... The Republicans are getting ready. They want everything to go perfectly. In fact, they are already auditioning people to be black Republicans." —David Letterman

"Governor Jeb Bush of Florida announced he was running for re-election. Not only did he announce he was running for re-election, he also announced what his final vote count would be." —Jay Leno

Twain's observations are usually always money, aren't they?
- Davester ;) ;D

"If American politics doesn't always make much sense, it's largely because of two broad classes of people: (1) fools, and (2) knaves. This simple dichotomy roughly corresponds to the two-party system, though there is plenty of overlap." - Joseph Sobran

Here are more.


“He is racist, he’s homophobic, he’s xenophobic and he’s a sexist. He’s the perfect Republican candidate.” — Bill Press (about Pat Buchanan)

“Any political party that can’t cough up anything better than a treacherous brain-damaged old vulture like Hubert Humphrey deserves every beating it gets. They don’t hardly make ’em like Hubert any more — but just to be on the safe side, he should be castrated anyway.” — Hunter S. Thompson (about Hubert Humphrey, 1973)

“Don’t be so humble; you’re not that great.” — Golda Meir (to Moshe Dayan)

“When he does smile, he looks as if he’s just evicted a widow.” — Mike Royko (about Bob Dole, 1988)

“He’s a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.” — Lyndon Johnson (about Gerald Ford)

“He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.” — James Reston (about Richard Nixon)

“He doesn’t dye his hair; he’s just prematurely orange.” — Gerald Ford (about Ronald Reagan)

“His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea.” — William McAdoo (about Warren Harding)

“Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.” — Irving Layton (about Pierre Trudeau)




Cat