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| Thurgood Marshall
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
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| Theodore White
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
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| Groucho Marx
All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.
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| Milton Friedman
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
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| Gore Vidal
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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| Winston Churchill
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
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| Henry Adams
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
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| Ralph Nader
I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'
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| Gore Vidal
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
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| William Hague
When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.
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| Spiro T. Agnew
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
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| Benjamin Disraeli
There is no gambling like politics.
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| Frank Lloyd Wright
A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
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| Alphonse de Lamartine
The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
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| Napoleon Bonaparte
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
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| Richard Armour
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
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| Lady Bird Johnson
Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
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| Charles de Gaulle
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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| Neal Barnard
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
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| F. Sionil Jose
Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through ...
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| Sai Baba
Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.
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| Erik Erikson
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.
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| Albert Camus
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
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| Luther Burbank
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
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| G. Gordon Liddy
Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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