Read My Lipstick

The first wealth is health. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

My own tax expert, H & R Crock. - Archie Bunker

No taxation without regimentation. - Archie Bunker

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader

Net Worth: Measurement of a fisherman's wealth - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Most bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson

Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax. - Charles Kettering

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. - James Reston

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fond of lawsuits, little wealth; fond of doctors, little health. - Hebrew Proverb

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. - Louis D. Brandeis

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - Bertrand Russell

A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley

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

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. - Woody Allen

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. - John F Kennedy

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. - Tom Robbins

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P.J. O'Rourke

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. - Andrew Jackson

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds. - James C Penney

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

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. - Theodor Adorno

I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick. - Sarah Palin

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. - Lyndon B. Johnson

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro

You do not determine a man's greatness by his talent or wealth, as the world does, but rather by what it takes to discourage him. - Jerry Falwell

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

Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov