Temperature Tax

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

The bad guys always get a vote. - Navy saying

Liberty is the right to silence. - Unknown

The world is governed by opinion. - William E. Channing

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

Erection: When Japanese go to vote. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

This virus just breaks all the rules. - Thomas Scott

Television is democracy at its ugliest. - Paddy Chayefsky

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

In politics the middle way is none at all. - John Adams

Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan

All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken

Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno

Death and taxes are unsolved engineering problems. - Romana Machado

The Golden Rule has no place in a political campaign. - John J Ingalls

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

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

Political War: One in which everyone shoots from the lip - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

Liberty: One of Imagination's most previous possessions. - Ambrose Bierce

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

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

I don't go around signin' no political documentaries. - Archie Bunker

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

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. - Will Rogers

We can't predict what a virus we've never seen will do. - Marc Lipsitch

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

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

Ultimatum: In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. - Lao Tzu

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

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. - Daniel Webster

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski

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

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

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

Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people. - Oscar Wilde

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. - Bono

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

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business. - Will Rogers

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

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

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

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

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

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

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. - Joe Biden

Be known for pleasing others, espcecially if you govern them... Ruling others has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else. - Baltasar Gracian

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. - John W. Gardner

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. - Paul Harvey

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