Great Political Quotes

The only poll that counts is the one where you close the curtains and pull the lever. Don't let the Obama Worshiping press run you off. That is their goal: Discourage you, depress you and keep you from voting for an American hero.

Read these quotes, then go vote.

If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed;
If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
-Mark Twain

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress....
But then I repeat myself.
-Mark Twain

I 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 politician is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
-G. Gordon Liddy

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
-Douglas Casey

Giving money and power to the 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)

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 of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
-Voltaire (1764)

No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
-Mark Twain (1866 )

Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.
-Unknown

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class -- except Congress
- Mark Twain

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

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

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson

Big Mac's Big Vision

Criticize him if you want (I know I do), but at least John McCain gives you something to grab on to. Obama critics often fumble when challenged because the O Man just doesn't give his detractors much to hold on to. How do you criticize hope?
Anyway, Mr. McCain has laid out more of his vision for governing. These are non-partisan issues addressed from a centrist-conservative perspective. I think many voters will find them attractive. If nothing else, his approach is refreshing.

- A "League of Democracies" has supplanted a failed United Nations to apply sanctions to the Sudanese government and halt genocide in Darfur.

- The United States has had "several years of robust growth," appropriations bills free of lawmakers' pet projects known as "earmarks,"

- Public education improved by charter schools

- Health care improved by expansion of the private market

- Energy crisis stemmed through the start of construction on 20 new nuclear reactors.

- Democrats are asked to serve in his administration

- He holds weekly news conferences

- And, like the British prime minister, answers questions publicly from lawmakers.

Despite my earlier comment, I believe Mr. Obama is a sincere man. Maybe this election can actually avoid trashy tabloidism and be about real issues for a change. I can dream...