POLITICS and POLITICIANS

I'm not disturbing the peace -- I'm disturbing the war.
- Ammon Hennacy, US Labor leader

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

Avoid all needle drugs - the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
- Abbie Hoffman, activist

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
- Dr. Stockton in Henrik Ibsen's "Enemy of the People"

Poverty is not the problem. Wealth is the problem. Poverty is the solution.
- Satish Kumar, author and activist to Resurgence magazine

The Air Force is reacting to the EPA ban on CFC's by replacing them in the cooling systems of the intercontinental (ballistic) missiles with 2 to 10 nuclear warheads on board. If they are ever fired, it will be an environmentally friendly nuclear holocaust, not threatening the Ozone layer.
- Access to Energy, July 1993

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
- graffiti found in London, 1979

Co-opt is baby talk for corrupt.
- John Leonard

Laws are like spiders' webs: if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
- Solon, Greek lawmaker

The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.
- George Lois, Art of Advertising, 1977

If you wonder why something is the way it is, find out who’s making money from it being that way.
- Martin Luther King

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
- Thomas Jefferson

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
- John F. Kennedy (Address to Nobel Prize winners)

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
- Winston Churchill

A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers as often as she needs to stand in front of them.
- Marilyn vos Savant

The big thieves hang the little ones.
- Czech Proverb

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
- Edward Abbey

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate for the stormy present.
- Abraham Lincoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... That if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
- Adlai E. Stevenson

Ubi dubium ibi libertas:
Where there is doubt, there is freedom.
- Latin proverb

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
- Thomas Jefferson (letter to Archibald Stuart on the encroachments of state governments), Jeffersonian essays (added to frequently)

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
- Golda Meir

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
- Beatrice Hall (pseudonym: S.G. Tallentyre)

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
- Bill Vaughan

I have no country to fight for: my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
- Eugene V. Debs

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
- Dwight Eisenhower

If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again.
- Dwight Eisenhower, on leaving the White House

I am confident that the Republican party will pick a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.
- Dan Quayle, contemplating the 2000 election

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