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OBSERVATIONS ON POLITICIANS

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"Under every stone lurks a politician." -- Aristophanes

"To err is human, but it takes a politician to really screw things up." -- Old American Adage

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy." -- Ernest Benn

"Giving money and power to the government is like giving car keys and whisky to teenage boys." -- P.J. O'Rourke

"When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics." -- P.J. O'Rourke

"Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty -- their power and privilege -- to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians." -- P.J. O'Rourke

"God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell." -- Patrick Jake O'Rourke

"No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session." -- Judge Gideon J. Tucker, 1866

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

"It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it." -- Will Rogers

"The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best." -- Will Rogers

"A politician is just like a pickpocket; it's almost impossible to get him to reform." -- Will Rogers

"The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that a pickpocket doesn't always get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself." -- Joseph Sobran

"Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money --- only for wanting to keep your own money." -- Joseph Sobran

"There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all." -- Davy Crockett

"If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." -- H. L. Mencken

"Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar." -- H. L. Mencken

"There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." -- Mark Twain

"We have the best congress money can buy." -- Mark Twain

"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain

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

"You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down." -- Thomas Sowell

"There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else." -- Thomas Sowell

"If politicians stopped meddling with things they didn’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates." -- Thomas Sowell

"Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise, because of the risk of default. ... The idea that politicians can assess risks better than people who have spent their whole careers assessing risks should have been so obviously absurd that no one would take it seriously." -- Thomas Sowell

"Politics makes strange bedfellows." -- Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in aa Garden, 1870

"In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media." -- Thomas Sowell

"How do you know when a politician is lying? His lips are moving." -- Favorite Old Joke

"Politicians are, by nature, liars." -- Dale Amon

"I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want." -- Charles Peacock

"Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others." -- Groucho Marx

"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word." -- Charles De Gaulle

"Experience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute -- not much to recommend them." -- Charley Reese, 10/20/99

"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." -- Ronald Reagan

"Politicians may think prostitution is a grim, degrading life. But prostitutes think the same of politics." -- Steve Chapman, 7-14-2005

"If there were any people safe to criticize, they'd be politicians and child molesters, doncha think?" -- Neal Boortz

"The politician is a type of creature known for its propensity to lie, exaggerate, embellish, and use all kinds of hysterical or bombastic attention-getting." -- Rick Gaber

"No one since the Garden of Eden -- which the serpent forsook in order to run for higher office -- has imputed to politicians great purity of motive." -- William F. Buckley, Jr.

"Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!" -- Drew Carey

"A child can go only so far in life without potty training. It is not mere coincidence that six of the last seven presidents were potty trained, not to mention nearly half of the nation's state legislators." -- Dave Barry

"We should be long past applauding politicians of any hue: they got us into this mess. The best deserve a probationary opportunity to prove themselves, the worst should be in jail." -- Gerald Warner

"The politicians should not tell the people to shut up." -- John Stossel

"It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that producing food, shelter, transportation, or medical care is not." -- Thomas Sowell

"No wonder politicians love government schools. Where do you think the dumb masses come from that can be so easily led and manipulated?" -- Neal Boortz

"In medicine, it has long been recognized that even a quack remedy that is harmless in itself can be fatal when it substitutes for an effective medication or treatment. The time is overdue for that same recognition to apply to politics." -- Dr. Thomas Sowell

"Scratch the surface of an endemic problem -- famine, illness, poverty -- and you invaariably find a politician at the source." -- Simon Carr, in his review of The Mystery of Capital by Hernando de Soto

"You can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers. ... Economic ignorance is to politicians what idle hands are to the devil. Both provide the workshop for the creation of evil." -- Walter E. Williams
. "One Blue Dog Democratic House Member reminded me earlier this month of the saying that 'insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' He wondered if his fellow Members weren't more in need of advice from psychiatrists than from economists at this point." -- John Fund .
"A famous French economist by the name of Frederic Bastiat once suggested that when social policies turn out to be harmful to the citizenry, it is because politicians often react to economic problems that they can see, without any regard for the unforeseen consequences of their solutions to those problems." -- Jack Chambless

"Politicians love visible beneficiaries and invisible victims." -- Dr. Walter Williams on WABC-AM 10-31-03

"Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims..." -- Donald Boudreaux, in his article, "Losing Touch". located HERE. In all fairness, Dr. Boudreaux also says, "Friends of liberty do their cause no favors by exaggerating the moral shortcomings of politicians or by portraying them as inherently stupid, fiendish, or sinister."
"Okay then, how about misguided, careless, amoral, desperate or blind?" -- Dan Jergens

"Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate*. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it." -- Harry Browne

"A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money." -- the late Senator Everett M. Dirksen, "The Wizard of Ooze"

"Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences." -- Molly Ivins

"What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?" -- Thomas Sowell

"People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain and officious busybodies. People who actually achieve political power are to be trusted even less than those who seek it without success; winning elections requires a measure of deceitfulness and Machiavellian immorality that no decent person comes close to possessing." -- Donald Boudreaux

"The personal qualities necessary for attaining office are practically the opposite of those demanded by the office itself. The trouble with the damn system is that it selects for the skills needed to get elected, and nothing else. A test that you can only pass by cheating can't possibly select honest people." -- James P. Hogan

"Our current political system ensures not that the worst will get on top -- though they often do -- but that the best will never even apply." -- Paul Jacob

"The high-minded definition of politics is: 'the art or science of government; the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy.' It is only when you keep reading in Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary that you get closer to the truth: 'political activities characterized by artful and often dishonest practices'." -- Cal Thomas

"If ... we are dishonest for ratings -- then we become what we hate -- politiciaans!" -- Sean Hannity to Neal Boortz, 3-28-05

"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office." -- H.L. Mencken

"It's always amusing to see how much less the political class knows than the rest of us do. ... it's never occurred to [the likes of Senators Brownback and Obama] that they bear a worse stigma than any AIDS patient, being almost universally regarded as blowhards, crooks, dopes, and fools." -- Stephen Cox, Liberty, February 2007

"Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags." -- David Harsanyi

"[Political] offices are as acceptable here as elsewhere, and whenever a man casts a longing eye on them, a rottenness begins in his conduct." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1799

"Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office seeking." -- Rutherford B. Hayes, 1878

"You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest." -- Ambrose Bierce

"Politics was never meant to be a profession." -- Duane Alan Hahn

"Politicians, like diapers, should be changed often (and for the same reasons)." -- Smilemakers

"Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school." -- Rep. Barney Frank

"This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision." -- Rep. Jeff Flake

"Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision." -- Dick Armey

"Politicians are leaches, mostly." -- Prof. Tibor R. Machan

"The United States was supposed to have a limited government because the founders knew political power attracts swarms of crooks, demagogues and despots as surely as horse manure attracts swarms of horseflies." -- Rick Gaber

"Force always attracts men of low morality." -- Albert Einstein

"Demagogue: One who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots." -- H.L. Mencken

"Getting a lecture on morality from a politician is like getting a lecture on chastity from a whore." -- Perry de Havilland

"‘Politics’ comes from the Greek ‘poly’ meaning ‘many’ and ‘ticks’, which are blood-sucking parasites." -- Andre Marrou and Rep. Davy Crockett

"The problem with politics isn't the money; it's the power." -- Harry Browne

"The problem isn't the abuse of power; it's the power to abuse." -- Michael Cloud

"Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually -- if not by today's politicians, then by their successors." -- Harry Browne

Politicians sold 'protection' -- Blackmail was the game -- Plunder was made legal! -- Yet, it's the moral men we blame!
-- "A Poem by Richard Grant"

"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant." -- Charles de Gaulle

"Politicians are the craftiest and most cunning of all con artists and salesmen. They can manipulate even the most cherished beliefs and intellectual arguments to convince you to give them immense coercive power over other people and eventually, even over you. They're so good at it that they can even convince many to become fanatic supporters, and themselves to believe their own bullshit." -- Rick Gaber

"Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves." --Marcus Tullius Cicero, brilliant philosopher, writer, political scientist, orator, humorist and last Free Consul of Rome, before he was murdered on the orders of that despicable despot Mark Anthony, doing his utmost to demonstrate and underscore Cicero's observation

"Who may we look to for a reprieve from these money-grubbers and looters? We cannot look to our neighbors and fellow citizens, for they are as dumb as posts. They complain about high taxes and then vote these morons into office anyway." -- Cody

"Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied." -- Otto von Bismarck

"Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth." -- Jonah Goldberg

"People often ask me why I left the Senate, and I always tell them after eight years in Washington, I longed for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood." -- TV actor Fred Thompson, Former U.S. Senator

"[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished" -- Clare Booth Luce

"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts." -- Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series off hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H.L. Mencken

"No one ever died from smoking marijuana, but millions of people have died by believing politicians." -- Harry Browne

"For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise." -- Harry Browne

"Most politicians believe in just one thing -- winning elections. They'll say anything to get in office and stay there." -- Harry Browne

"One reason the economy is such a mess is that politicians care far more about keeping their jobs than about helping you keep yours." -- Steve Dasbach

"Politicians cannot create jobs or wealth. Such is axiomatic to straight thinkers." -- Greg Perry

"Politicians are politicians all of the time -- whether they're helping themselves to an extra-serving of farm-subsidy bacon, writing new laws about when their opponents can and can't run ads about them or appointing bureaucrats to enforce those laws. ... There are no angels at the FEC. There aren't any in Congress or at the White House. And the sooner arrogant reformers like Sen. McCain and Fred Wertheimer realize that they're no angels either, the better for all of us -- and for the Constitution." -- Ryan Sager

"For those who fancy that government's projects are uniquely important, or for those who imagine that holding government office makes someone unusually saintly or trustworthy, entrusting government with power that we would never entrust to our neighbors or other private citizens might seem sensible. To me, it's dangerous, unjustified, and unjustifiable." -- Dr. Donald Boudreaux

"We should be long past applauding politicians of any hue: they got us into this mess. The best deserve a probationary opportunity to prove themselves, the worst should be in jail." -- Gerald Warner

"All politicians are collectivists. They don't care about privacy." -- Professor Ian Angell, quoted on ZDNet

"It is the rare -- maybe even nonexistent -- politician who will admit this, but numbber one on the politicians to-do list is always to get reelected. Nothing else comes close. The economy, the stock market, the war on terrorism … NOTHING comes ahead of getting reelected. Staying in power is job number one." -- Neal Boortz

"The only true allegiance a politician has is to his own re-election." -- Michelle Malkin

"Politics is all about getting and keeping power, and in politics, the professionals in the business soon learn that the only way to get and keep power is to force people to talk to them. A full-time legislature thinks of more and more things to regulate and discuss." -- California Assemblyman Ray Haynes

"Is there anything more dangerous to the cause of liberty than a politician fixated on re-election?" -- Neal Boortz

"Any legislator up for re-election will vote against a bad law if and only if there are enough other votes to pass it." -- Bert Rand


"A politician in power tends to remain in power." -- Neal Boortz's "First Rule of Political Dynamics"

"Cheap medical care is one of the most expensive things there is. So long as politicians can create the illusion of something for nothing, that gets them votes, which is what it is all about, as far as they are concerned." -- Dr. Thomas Sowell

"You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians." -- P.J. O'Rourke

"Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with experience in the real world, not experience in the phony world of politics." -- Dr. Thomas Sowell

"Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and more of our money, we are very unlikely to end up better off on net balance." -- Thomas Sowell

"The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation." -- Paul Harvey, 4-5-07

"There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken

"Congress will always couple one bad idea with another, the better to 'offset' them." -- Jeff Taylor

"There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse." -- Thomas Sowell

"Auschwitz exists because of politicized science." -- Dr. Michael Crichton, 1-28-05

"The road to hell is paved with politicians' good intentions." -- Chief Jerry Cameron

"Legislators aren’t known for being rocket scientists." -- Walter E. Williams

"'Solve' and 'problems' are not in the Constitution." -- Doug Newman

"A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. Apparently, so do many politicians." -- Rick Gaber

"One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress." -- John Adams

"Whenever the government causes a crisis, Congress and the president of the United States will almost surely give even more power and authority to the agency that is most responsible for the calamity." -- William L. Anderson

"A one-hour work-week...would minimize the damage that Congress can do." - Charles Krauthammer, 10-16-09

"It is fascinating to watch politicians come up with 'solutions' to problems that are a direct result of their previous solutions. In many cases, the most efficient thing to do would be to repeal their previous solution and stop being so gung-ho for creating new solutions in the future. But, politically, that is the last thing they will do." -- Thomas Sowell

"The modus operandi which politicians have loved for so many years is: 'If it doesn't work, do more of it!' " -- Ian Bernard

"Intelligence collection has been given an additional bureaucracy to correct the problems created by too much bureaucracy in intelligence collection." -- P. J. O'Rourke

"A politician's guiding philosophy: 'When in doubt, pander.' " -- Doug Newman

"Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense." -- Dr. Donald Boudreaux

"Giving a politician access to your wallet is like giving a dog access to your refrigerator." -- Tim Barber

"A politician is like a drunk who walks into a bar, sees a sign that says “All you can drink for $1", and orders $2 worth." -- Cafrman

"To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors." -- Ronald Reagan

"The difference between congressmen and drunken sailors is that drunken sailors are spending their own money." -- Rep. Tom Feeney

"Congress' passing of the omnibus spending bill without reading it shows more than anything why they can't be trusted." -- Neal Boortz

"Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them." -- Lily Tomlin

"Politicians detest self-sufficient citizens. Politicians need to be needed. When we get socialized medicine, you will be completely dependent upon politicians for your medical care, as Canadians are today. That's why if you need an MRI in Canada, you have to wait three months -- unless you pay certain kinds of homage to the right politicians." -- Neal Boortz

"[Professional politicians] don't mind if price controls cause shortages of health care. In fact, they welcome the prospect, because then they can impose rationing; they can impose priorities, and tell everyone how much of what kind of medical care they can have. And besides, ... there's that deeply satisfying rush of power." -- Murray N. Rothbard

"The problem with politics isn't the money; it's the power." -- Harry Browne

"Power is more addictive than heroin." -- savedbygrace

"Those who have been once intoxicated with power and have derived any kind of emolument from it can never willingly abandon it." -- Edmund Burke

"Robbery, when legalized, is profitable, at least for the middle men. And the middle men in the legal plunder game are the politicians and their clients with government jobs." -- Wirkman Virkkala

"As property, honestly obtained, is best secured by an equality of rights, so ill-gotten property depends for protection on a monopoly of rights. He who has robbed another of his property, will next endeavor to disarm him of his rights, to secure that property; for when the robber becomes the legislator he believes himself secure." -- Thomas Paine, Dissertations on First Principles of Government

"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"And now the court has let the most powerful of American interest groups -- incumbent politicians -- have their way with the First Amendment.. Wednesday's message to the mere people was clear: Shut up, the court explained." -- Paul Greenberg.

"Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves." -- Lew Rockwell

"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods." -- H.L. Mencken

"Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money --- only for wanting to keep your own money."-- Joseph Sobran

"'Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer." -- Joseph Sobran

"Lofty talk about 'social justice' or 'fairness' boils down to greatly expanded powers for politicians, since those pretty words have no concrete definition. They are a blank check for creating disparities in power that dwarf disparities in income -- and are far more dangerous." -- Thomas Sowell

"Try walking the halls of Congress. It's Abercrombie & Fitch meets the Hair Club for Men. Lots of really photogenic young people kissing up to lots of insufferable blowhards. Separated by one or two generations, most of these players have only one real thing in common: They have never been weaned from the public teat. The closest they've ever come to meeting a payroll is when they come together to spend everyone else's payroll taxes." -- Michelle Malkin, here.

"The average federal income tax rate for the 437,036 individual returns filed for the year 1916 was .0275 (2.75 percent). And to think that Senator Nelson Aldrich had urged passage of the income tax, vehemently bellowing on the floor of the Senate his impassioned assurances that it would never, never, EVER go above one percent!" -- Rick Gaber

"For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise." -- Harry Browne

"Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics." -- Thomas Sowell

"If there's a distinct group of Americans who harbor open contempt for constitutional principles and rule of law, it's lawyers, judges and members of Congress." -- Walter Williams in his column, "Attacks on the Rule of Law"

"There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress ... than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S." -- James K. Polk, December 16, 1846

"... both individuals and companies are using the Netherlands as a haven for productive activity. ... This is good news for all taxpayers. The rich directly benefit, since greedy politicians are unable to seize as much of their money. And the rest of us benefit, since this puts downward pressure on tax rates as governments try to keep the geese that lay the golden eggs from flying away." -- Daniel J. Mitchell

"Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power." -- Aldous Huxley

"You may scoff at the Tooth Fairy if you like. But the Tooth Fairy's approach has gotten more politicians elected than any economist's analysis." -- Thomas Sowell

"The purpose of the Senate is to keep 100 middle aged knuckleheads out of the private sector where they can do real harm." -- P.J. O'Rourke

"Some years ago an excellent professor of economics told his class in his gravelly voice, 'If you pay me $50,000 a year to solve a problem, I damned sure ain't going to solve it.' " -- Charley Reese, Orlando Sentinel 2-24-2000
"If you pay me $150,000 a year to solve all the country's problems, not only will I NOT solve any, I'll make A LOT MORE NEW ONES while appearing to 'solve' the old ones." -- Randy Richards

"What this country needs are more unemployed politicians." -- Edward Langley

[A demonstration of how politicians deserve to be talked about]: See"The contrast was exquisite. Politicians yakking about a supposed problem while real people in the real world make the yakking moot." HERE.

"This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by aid of it." -- Will Rogers, 1935

"This government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way." -- Henry David Thoreau in his essay, "Civil Disobedience"

"Doing nothing in the public policy world allows much more to be done in the real world." -- Thomas Hazlett

"... you know that a plan was dreamed up by politicians and pollsters -- and not by, oh, anyone who knows what they are talking about -- when the numbers are nice and round with a catchy ring to them..." -- Jerry Taylor

"People constantly speak of 'the government' doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men. They may have some better man working for them, but they themselves are seldom worthy of any respect." -- H.L. Mencken

"I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics." -- Dr. Michael Crichton, 1-28-05

"Government, when it is examined, turns out to be nothing more nor less than a group of fallible men with the political force to act as though they were infallible." -- Robert LeFevre, in his essay, Aggression is Wrong

"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." -- Thomas Sowell

"When looking for a reason why things go wrong, never rule out sheer stupidity." -- Brian M. Wilson

"Aren't you being too charitable? Why assume stupidity when dishonesty will suffice ... ?" -- John T. Kennedy

"Politics is the business of tinkering with other people's lives." -- Nolan Neathercutt

"Everything the government touches turns to crap." -- Ringo Starr

"Turning to politicians is the worst way to solve a problem." -- Jim Babka

"'Solve' and 'problems' are not in the Constitution." -- Doug Newman

"Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them." -- Ronald Reagan

"Being a politician means never having to say you're sorry. You don't have to say, 'I never should have voted to subsidize that ridiculous Enron project in India.' ... After all, they're greedy businessmen and you're a selfless public servant." -- Harry Browne

"Politicians are notorious for attaining results contrary to their stated goals." -- Prof. Aeon J. Skoble

"Whenever you come across a screw-up this big, you know the government is behind it." -- Ann Coulter

"In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable." -- George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1945

"Anything seems more appealing than immersing myself in the sewer of daily politics." -- Allen Forkum

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