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Government

"No matter who you vote for, the government still gets elected."

"Be Patriotic- Question Authority."

"Keep your laws off my body."

"Empty the prison, make room for congress."

"No one is free when others are oppressed."

"It will be a great day when our school get all the money they need and the air force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber."

"I love my country, but fear my government."

"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse." --Edmund Burke

"The government is best which governs least." --Thomas Jefferson

"The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were the not the wrong sort of people." --Jon Wynne-Tyson

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." -Lord Acton

"I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale." -William J. Clinton

"I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them." -Alfred Hitchcock

"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms." -Groucho Marx

"If Con is the opposite of Pro, then is Congress the opposite of Progress?"

"You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER" -Frank Zappa

"My political party is chaotic neutral."

"Women should be running for office- not coffee."

"The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs." -Alohonse de Lamartine, Poet

"If the law don't protect me, then it don't apply to me neither."

"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism the reverse is true." -John Kenneth Galbraith

"Democracy's the worst form of government except for all the others." -Winston Churchill

"Suppose you're an idiot, and suppose you're a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." Mark Twain

"Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children." -Kahlil Gibran

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!" -Albert Einstein

"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." -Bertrand Russell

"Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them." -Lily Tomlin

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