>Subject: It's the Political Season
> >
> >*Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of
> >Congress.  But, I repeat 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
> >
> >*A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on
> >the support of Paul. --George Bernard Shaw
> >
> >*A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man,
> >which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. -- G. Gordon
> >Liddy
> >
> >Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep
> >voting on what to have for dinner. --James Bovard, Civil Libertarian
> >(1994)
> >
> >*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 Reagan (1986)
> >
> >*I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the
> >facts.  --Will Rogers
> >
> >*If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see
> >what it costs when it's free. --P.J. O'Rourke
> >
> >*If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal.
> >If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a
> >conservative.  If you want government to intervene everywhere,
> >you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene
> >anywhere, you're an extremist. --Joseph Sobran, Editor of
> >the National Review at one time (1995)
> >
> >*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
> >
> >*The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects
> >of folly is to fill the world with fools. --Herbert Spencer, English
> >Philosopher (1820-1903)
> >
> >*There is no distinctly native American criminal class save
> >Congress. --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
> >
> >When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the
> >first things to be bought and sold are legislators. --P.J.
>
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