Politics

• "Because democracy is not a spectator sport." - 2004 US president election democrats

• " A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground." - H. L. Mencken

• "Man is by nature a political animal." - Aristotle

• "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." - H. L. Mencken

• "Anarchy means having to put up with things that really piss you off."

• "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." -Lord Acton, 1887

• "The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities." -Lord Acton

• "The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority." -Lord Acton

• "Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end." -Lord Acton

• "Learn as much by writing as by reading." -Lord Acton

• "Power corrupts. Absolute power is kinda neat."

• "I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy unless it has in some way obstructed inter-state commerce." - J. Edgar Hoover

• "No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God." - George H. W. Bush

• "I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator. By warding off the Jews I am fighting for the Lord's work." - Adolf Hitler, 1936

• "Who says I'm not under the special protection of god?" - Adolf Hitler

• "Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in a fanatical outlook." - Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

• "The Jews and the Arabs should settle their dispute in the true spirit of Christian charity." - Senator Alexander Wiley

• "In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination." - Mark Twain

• "My feelings as a Christian point me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter...As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice...For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people." - Adolf Hitler, 1922

• "It will be years -- not in my time -- before a woman will become Prime Minister." - Margaret Thatcher, 1974

• "[I want to] make sure everybody who has a job wants a job." - George H. W. Bush (during his first campaign for the presidency)

• "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." - George W. Bush

• "The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case." - George W. Bush

• "When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results." - Calvin Coolidge (ex-president, discussing the United States economic situation in 1931)

• "If Lincoln was alive today, he'd roll over in his grave." - Gerald Ford

• "Things are more like they are now than they have ever been." - Gerald Ford

• "I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio." - Gerald Ford

• "China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese." - Charles de Gaulle

• "A zebra does not change its spots." - Al Gore

• "There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values." - Ronald Reagan

• "The right to suffer is one of the joys of a free economy." - Howard Pyle (aide to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, commenting on the unemployment situation in Detroit)

• "The streets are safe in Philadelphia -- it's only the people who make them unsafe." - Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia

• "Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff." - Senator William Scott, during a briefing in which officials began telling him about missile silos

• "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." - Emma Goldman

• "Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners." - Edward Abbey

• "When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick.'" - Mikhail Bakunin in Statism and Anarchy

• "Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters." - Bob Dylan

• "I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them." - George H. W. Bush

• "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." - Dan Quayle

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

• "The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there is nothing in the mall and if you don't go there they shoot you." - P.J. O'Rourke

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

• "When women are depressed, they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking." - Elaine Boosler

• "I can make more generals, but horses cost money." - Abraham Lincoln

• "The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy" - Edwin W. Edwards

• "People say I steal. Well, all politicians steal." - Huey P. Long

• "The proof is the proof, and if we have the proof, then that is the proof." - Jean Cretien

• "If the opposite of pro is con, then what is the opposite of progress?"

• "I do not believe that the United States should be bound by the same rules as the smallest African nation. Life isn't like that." - Richard Perle, USA Pentagon advisor

• "The 20th century has been characterised by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth of corporate propaganda against democracy." - Alex Carey, Australian social scientist.

• "[In the West] unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without any need for an official ban." - George Orwell

• "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." - Groucho Marx