Temperature Tax

Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

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

The bad guys always get a vote. - Navy saying

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

This virus just breaks all the rules. - Thomas Scott

Crime does not pay as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman

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

Liberty consists in doing what one desires. - John Stuart Mill

Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it. - Unknown

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. - Molly Ivins

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. - Khalil Gibran

The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love. - Joe E Lewis

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

I greet you in the name of peace, democracy, and freedom. - Nelson Mandela

Sudafed: Brought litigation against a government official - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. - George Jean Nathan

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. - Maya Angelou

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown

We have the best government in the world... that money can buy. - Mark Twain

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford

Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches. - Will Rogers

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

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge. - Lao-tzu

To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it. - Greek Proverb

Men are governed only by serving them; the rule is without exception. - V. Cousin

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. - Thomas Jefferson

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. - Kin Hubbard

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. - Raisa M. Gorbachev

The avoidance of taxes is the only pursuit that still carries any reward. - John Maynard Keynes

Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands. - Jesse Helms

American Politics: A form of socialism for the rich, including the politicians. - Gregory Nunn

A good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. - H L Mencken

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. - Bertrand Russell

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

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. - Aldous Huxley

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain

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

The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus. - Joshua Lederberg

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers

Everyone wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. - Werner Finck

Taxes are the dues that we pay for the privilege of membership in an organized society. - Franklin D Roosevelt

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

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. - Patrick Henry

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. - Horace Mann

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

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. - James Bovard

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. - Will Rogers

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

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol

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

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

I could juggle anything in my day: balls, cigar boxes, knives. But I could never juggle my income tax. - WC Fields

Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. - Caskie Stinnett

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

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

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

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. - Clare Boothe Luce

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

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner

Politics is the only business where doing nothing other than making the other guy look bad is an acceptable outcome. - Mark Warner

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. - Cal Thomas

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. - Benjamin Franklin

It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. - Thomas Jefferson

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. - Thomas Jefferson

The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin

I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes.
I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em. - Will Rogers

Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi

Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis. - George M Fraser