Without Government

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

A penny saved is a Congressional oversight. - Hal Luyah

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

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

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. - W.E.B. Du Bois

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

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken

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

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. - Raisa M. Gorbachev

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke

Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands. - Jesse Helms

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

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

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself. - Jack Nicholson

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

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

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. - George Bernard Shaw

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. - Victor Hugo

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman

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

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle

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

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding. - Louis D Brandeis

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. - Reinhold Niebuhr

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. - Lyndon B. Johnson

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

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - John Adams

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

Papers say: 'Congress is deadlocked and can't act.' I think that is the greatest blessing that could befall this country. - Will Rogers

Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy