Temperature Tax

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

The world is governed by opinion. - William E. Channing

No taxation without regimentation. - Archie Bunker

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

Humanity is just a virus with shoes. - Bill Hicks

This virus just breaks all the rules. - Thomas Scott

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

In politics the middle way is none at all. - John Adams

To receive a benefit is to sell your liberty. - Laberius

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty. - Terence

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate, VII

Every time somebody gets the Ebola virus, it mutates. - Glenn Beck

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

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative. - Kim Campbell

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. - Maya Angelou

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx

I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged. - Roger Jones

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle

We can't predict what a virus we've never seen will do. - Marc Lipsitch

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford

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

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. - Edith Sitwell

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

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. - Benjamin Franklin

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

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. - Abraham Lincoln

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

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski

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

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. - Theodore White

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

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation. - Madeleine Albright

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. - Will Rogers

Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini

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

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. - Charles de Secondat

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain

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

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. - James Bovard

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself. - Mark Twain

I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. - H L Mencken

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

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. - Malcolm de Chazal

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. - Will Rogers

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties. - John Milton

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. - E.B. White

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy. - Fidel Castro

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

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. - Alexander Hamilton

Politics is the only business where doing nothing other than making the other guy look bad is an acceptable outcome. - Mark Warner

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

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

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

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

The most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip. - Johnny Isakson

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

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. - Louis D. Branders

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. - Judith Viorst

Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes;
The wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year. - Ogden Nash