Carbon Issues

Liberty is the right to silence. - Unknown

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

Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan

The power to tax involves the power to destroy. - John Marshall

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against. - WC Fields

Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno

Climate is what we expect. Weather is what we get. - Mark Twain

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant

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

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

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

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

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

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

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - H L Mencken

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

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. - Winston Churchill

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. - Bertrand Russell

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

So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray

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

Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. - Maggie Gallagher

Where there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. - Plato

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

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

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

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

A democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. - Gore Vidal

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

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

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 tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms. - James Lovelock

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