Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2002-12-10 Dec 10, 2002I don't make jokes -- I just watch the government and report the facts.~ Will RogersThere's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.~ Will Rogers Dec 9, 2002Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.~ H. L. MenckenThe 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 Dec 6, 2002Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.~ Alan CorenkPower corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.~ John Lehman Dec 5, 2002Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.~ George Bernard ShawSo they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.~ Sir Winston Churchill Dec 4, 2002Politics is the art of looking for trouble,finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. ~ Ernest BennYou will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.~ John Kenneth Galbraith Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print