Carbon Issues

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. - John Adams

Voters want a fraud they can believe in. - Will Durst

I'm very strongly against tax increases. - Donald Trump

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

Didn't he take the exercise tax off cars? - Archie Bunker

In Congress, it's all pork, all the time. - Jim Cooper

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

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

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing. - Unknown

It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. - Sir Peter Ustinov

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. - Billy Boy Franklin

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. - Will Rogers

My sheer existence is like a political act to a lot of people. It's not to me. - Grimes

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. - Laurence J Peter

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself. - Jack Nicholson

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles

Passover affirms the great truth that liberty is the inalienable right of every human being. - Morris Joseph

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

I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. - Bob Hope

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

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

So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray

There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist - the taxidermist leaves the hide. - Mortimer Caplan

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans. - Kin Hubbard

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. - Donald Trump

The largest party in America is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. - Robert Reich

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. - Douglas Jerrold

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid. - Will Rogers

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. - Thomas Jefferson

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard

Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald

Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy

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