Organized Crime

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer. - Will Rogers

A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. - Isaiah Berlin

A penny saved is a Congressional oversight. - Hal Luyah

A career is a job that has gone on too long. - Jeff MacNelly

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

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

He who has reaped the profits has committed the crime. - Seneca

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

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa. - Allen Ginsberg

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

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Vladimir Nabokov

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government. - Mark Twain

Outside of the killings, D.C. has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. - Marion Barry

Tabloid: 1. A newspaper with a permanent crime wave; 2. A screamlined newspaper. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost

Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton

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

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan

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

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

The largest party in America is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. - Robert Reich

In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence. - Steven Wright

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

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. - Ronald Reagan

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

When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot. - Sergey Galitsky

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. - John Quincy Adams

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right, and making all crime mean and ugly. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Carry your courage in an easily accessible place, the way you do your cellphone or your wallet. Courage is the ultimate career move. - Anna Quindlen

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