· Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeated myself." --Mark Twain

· We 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

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

· There is no distinctly Native American criminal class save Congress. --Mark Twain

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

· When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. --P. J. O'Rourke

· A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

· Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. --Douglas Casey, Classmate of W. J. Clinton at Georgetown U. (1992)

· Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. --P. J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

· Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. --Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

· Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. -- Ronald Reaga(1986)

· If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.--P. J. O'Rourke

· In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. --Voltaire (1764)

· 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 are safe while the legislature is in session. --Mark Twain (1866)

· Talk is cheap-except when Congress does it. --(Unknown)

· 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 inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. --Winston Churchill

· The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. --Mark Twain

· There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. --P. J. O'Rourke (1993)

· What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. -- Edward Langley, Artist 1928-1995