‘A Mud Bath for Every Soul Concerned’

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

-- Henry Adams

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An election is a moral horror, as bad as battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned.

-- George Bernard Shaw

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Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

-- Ambrose Bierce

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

-- Charles De Gaulle

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

-- John Arbuthnot

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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even when there is no river.

-- Nikita S. Khrushchev

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Vote for the man who promises the least; he’ll be the least disappointing.

-- Bernard Baruch

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As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want--and the kids pay for it.

-- Richard Lamm

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Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

-- J.K. Galbraith

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The budget is a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, and then tries to reach in and pull real beans out.

-- Will Rogers

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Americans detest all the lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

-- Edgar Watson Howe

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

-- Lloyd Boyd-Orr

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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

-- William Penn

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The point to remember is that what government gives it must first take away.

-- John S. Coleman