Carbon Issues

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

Television is democracy at its ugliest. - Paddy Chayefsky

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

Liberty is never being too sure you're right. - Learned Hand

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. - W.E.B. Du Bois

Commitments the voters don’t know about can't hurt you. - Ogden Nash

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. - Mark Twain

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

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. - George Will

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers

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

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. - Will Rogers

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. - Bertrand Russell

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - H L Mencken

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

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

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

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. - Viktor Frankl

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. - E.B. White

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. - John P Barlow

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.)

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

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

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

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. - Arthur C. Clarke

The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams. - John Muir

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. - Reinhold Niebuhr

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads. - Andy Borowitz

We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we fight, without seeking our own interests. - Oliver Cromwell

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

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

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - John Adams

On my income tax 1040 it says, "Check this box if you are blind." I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away. - Tom Lehrer

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. - Judith Viorst

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home. - Winston Churchill