Organized Crime

Diplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford

Not failure, but low aim, is crime. - J. R. Lowell

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

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

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

I now close my military career and just fade away. - Douglas MacArthur

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill

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

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw

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

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. - Mark Twain

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. - George Will

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

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. - Billy Boy Franklin

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

It's a proven fact that capital punishment is a well-known detergent to crime. - Archie Bunker

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

The key is to figure out what you want out of life, not what you want out of your career. - Goldie Hawn

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary? - Marion Barry

I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. - Bob Hope

Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back. - Andy Grove

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. - Thomas Jefferson

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

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P.J. O'Rourke

Democracy is very different in U.S. and A. from Kazakhstan. In America, woman can vote, but horse cannot! - Borat Sagdiyev

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

A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but the careers of those who work for him. - H.M.S. Burns

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. - Thurgood Marshall

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid. - Will Rogers

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

Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. - C S Lewis

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

I am quite sure now that often in matters concerning religion and politics, a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkeys. - Mark Twain

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