Carbon Issues

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity! - Unknown

Crime does not pay as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman

Don't vote; it only encourages them. - Unknown

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

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

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. - Zhou Enlai

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. - George Jean Nathan

There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income. - Will Rogers

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. - Will Rogers

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. - Sir Peter Ustinov

No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction. - American Proverb

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. - Robert Byrne

Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. - Will Rogers

In a democracy the majority has every right to act as stupid as the minority. - Frank Dane

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. - Bertrand Russell

A good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. - H L Mencken

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

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

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

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. - Laurence J Peter

I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank? - Milton Berle

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

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. - Harry S Truman

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. - Tom Robbins

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

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev

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

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans. - Kin Hubbard

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. - H L Mencken

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. - Johnny Carson

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

Taxpayer - someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. - Arthur C. Clarke

On my income tax 1040 it says, "Check this box if you are blind." I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away. - Tom Lehrer

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

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. - Joseph Addison