*"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed."*-Mark Twain
*"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."*~Winston Churchill
*"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."*~George Bernard Shaw
*"Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries."*~ Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University
*"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."*~P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
*"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!"* ~Pericles (430 B.C.)
*"No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session."*~Mark Twain (1866)
*"The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other."*~ Ronald Reagan
*"The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin."*~Mark Twain
*"What this country needs are more unemployed politicians."*~Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
*"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."*
~Thomas Jefferson
*"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."*~Aesop
*"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!"*~P.J. O'Rourke
Humorous comments on govt, politics, bureaucracy.
*"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."*~Winston Churchill
*"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."*~George Bernard Shaw
*"Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries."*~ Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University
*"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."*~P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
*"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!"* ~Pericles (430 B.C.)
*"No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session."*~Mark Twain (1866)
*"The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other."*~ Ronald Reagan
*"The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin."*~Mark Twain
*"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."*
~Thomas Jefferson
*"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."*~Aesop
*"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!"*~P.J. O'Rourke