Politics(235)

"The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too."
Oscar Levant

"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."
A. J. Liebling

"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 politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face."
Clare Boothe Luce

"The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined."
Neal Barnard, M.D.

"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."
Thomas B. Macaulay

"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

"You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest."
Harold MacMillan

"If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers."
Nelson Mandela

"When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers."
Imelda Marcos