Freedom Lawyers of America

"To err is human, but it takes a politician to really screw things up." --
Schopenhauer .
http://www.freedomkeys.com/politicians.htm

Groucho Marx: "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it,
misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies."

P.J. O'Rourke: "When politics are used to allocate resources, the
resources all end up being allocated to politics."

"Giving money and power to the government is like giving car keys and
whisky to teenage boys."

Gideon J. Tucker, 1866: "No man's life, liberty or property are safe while
the Legislature is in session."

Will Rogers: "This country has come to feel the same when congress is in
session as when a baby gets hold of a hammer."

"It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can
get some of it."

"A politician is just like a pickpocket; it's almost impossible to get him
to reform."

Mark Twain: "We have the best congress money can buy."

"There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."

"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of
Congress. But I repeat myself."

Thomas Sowell: "You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics.
Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down."

Monte Markham: "I don't approve of political jokes. I've seen too many of
them get elected."

H. L. Mencken: "Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an
ethical burglar."

Charles Peacock: "I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the
prerogative to lie whenever I want."

Charley Reese 10/20/99: "Experience to a politician is like experience to a
prostitute -- not much to recommend them."

Neal Boortz: "If there were any people safe to criticize, they'd be
politicians and child molesters, doncha think?"

William F. Buckley, Jr.: "No one since the Garden of Eden -- which the
serpent forsook in order to run for higher office -- has imputed to
politicians great purity of motive."

Dave Barry: "A child can go only so far in life without potty training. It
is not mere coincidence that six of the last seven presidents were potty
trained, not to mention nearly half of the nation's state legislators."

"[Political] offices are as acceptable here as elsewhere, and whenever a
man cast a longing eye on them, a rottenness begins in his conduct." --
Thomas Jefferson, 1799

"You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest." -- Ambrose
Bierce

"The personal qualities necessary for attaining office are practically the
opposite of those demanded by the office itself. The trouble with the damn
system is that it selects for the skills needed to get elected, and nothing
else. A test that you can only pass by cheating can't possibly select
honest people." -- James P. Hogan

"Most politicians believe in just one thing -- winning elections. They'll
say anything to get in office and stay there." -- Harry Browne

"The United States was supposed to have a limited government because the
founders knew power attracts swarms of crooks, demagogues and despots as
surely as horse manure attracts swarms of horseflies." -- Rick Gaber

"Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and
thieves." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero,
brilliant philosopher, writer, political scientist, orator, humorist and
last Free Consul of Rome, before he was murdered by the despicable despot
Mark Anthony, doing his utmost to demonstrate and underscore Cicero's
observation

"The only true allegiance a politician has is to his own re-election." --
Michelle Malkin

"Is there anything more dangerous to the cause of liberty than a politician
fixated on re-election?" -- Neal Boortz

"A politician in power tends to remain in power." -- Neal Boortz's "First
Rule of Political Dynamics"

"It is the rare -- maybe even nonexistent -- politician who will admit
this, but number one on the politicians to-do list is always to get
reelected. Nothing else comes close. The economy, the stock market, the war
on terrorism . NOTHING comes ahead of getting reelected. Staying in power
is job number one." -- Neal Boortz

"One reason the economy is such a mess is that politicians care far more
about keeping their jobs than about
helping you keep yours." -- Steve Dasbach

"There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible
and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken

"Congress will always couple one bad idea with another, the better to
'offset' them." -- Jeff Taylor

"Whenever the government causes a crisis, Congress and the president of the
United States will almost surely give even more power and authority to the
agency that is most responsible for the calamity." -- William L. Anderson

"The modus operandi which politicians have loved for so many years is: 'If
it doesn't work, do more of it!' " -- Ian Bernard

"A politician is like a drunk who walks into a bar, sees a sign that says
"All you can drink for $1", and orders $2 worth." -- Cafrman

"Giving a politician access to your wallet is like giving a dog access to
your refrigerator." -- Tim Barber

"Politicians detest self-sufficient citizens. Politicians need to be
needed. When we get socialized medicine, you will be completely dependent
upon politicians for your medical care, as Canadians are today. That's why
if you need an MRI in Canada, you have to wait three months -- unless you
pay certain kinds of homage to the right politicians." -- Neal Boortz

"A politician's guiding philosophy: 'When in doubt, pander.' " -- Doug Newman

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and
thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series
of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H.L. Mencken

"For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more
insecure than a political promise." -- Harry Browne

"Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims..." -- Donald
Boudreaux, in his article, "Losing Touch". located HERE. In all fairness,
Dr. Boudreaux also says, "Friends of liberty do their cause no favors by
exaggerating the moral shortcomings of politicians or by portraying them as
inherently stupid, fiendish, or sinister."
"Okay then, how about misguided, careless, amoral, desperate or blind?" --
Dan Jergens

"Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences."
-- Molly Ivins

"Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician
accidentally tells the truth." -- Jonah Goldberg

"[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished" -- Clare Booth Luce

"Robbery, when legalized, is profitable, at least for the middle men. And
the middle men in the legal plunder game are the politicians and their
clients with government jobs." -- Wirkman Virkkala

"The average federal income tax rate for the 437,036 individual returns
filed for the year 1916 was .0275 (2.75 percent). And to think that Senator
Nelson Aldrich had urged passage of the income tax, vehemently bellowing on
the floor of the Senate his impassioned assurances that it would never,
never, EVER go above one percent!" -- Rick Gaber

"The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence,
because it's so rare." -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 1976

"If there's a distinct group of Americans who harbor open contempt for
constitutional principles and rule of law, it's lawyers, judges and members
of Congress." -- Walter Williams in his column, "Attacks on the Rule of Law"

"What this country needs are more unemployed politicians." -- Edward Langley

[A demonstration of how politicians deserve to be talked about]: See "The
contrast was exquisite. Politicians yakking about a supposed problem while
real people in the real world make the yakking moot." HERE.

"This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by aid of
it." -- Will Rogers, 1935

"This government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with
which it got out of its way." -- Henry David Thoreau in his essay, "Civil
Disobedience"

"Doing nothing in the public policy world allows much more to be done in
the real world." -- Thomas Hazlett

"People constantly speak of 'the government' doing this or that, as they
might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a
group of men, and usually they are very inferior men. They may have some
better man working for them, but they themselves are seldom worthy of any
respect." -- H.L. Mencken

"You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except
politicians." -- P.J. O'Rourke

"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making
decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no
price for being wrong." -- Thomas Sowell

"Politics is the business of tinkering with other people's lives." -- Nolan
Neathercutt

"Everything the government touches turns to crap." -- Ringo Starr

"Turning to politicians is the worst way to solve a problem." -- Jim Babka

"Being a politician means never having to say you're sorry. You don't have
to say, 'I never should have voted to subsidize that ridiculous Enron
project in India.' ... After all, they're greedy businessmen and you're a
selfless public servant." -- Harry Browne

"Politicians are notorious for attaining results contrary to their stated
goals." -- Prof. Aeon J. Skoble

"Whenever you come across a screw-up this big, you know the government is
behind it." -- Ann Coulter

"Imagine how fast Social Security would be fixed or replaced if Congressmen
had to rely on it like they force everyone else to, instead of on their
lucrative special pension fund, sometimes paying millions a year. Heck,
imagine how they might even want to learn about real economics instead of
all those fallacies once they had such incentives." -- Bert Rand

"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who
do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the
first group; there was less competition there." -- Indira Gandhi

"I have never seen a politician purport to have bad intentions, no matter
what the agenda. Hitler thought he was doing the world a favor." -- Doug
Newman

"I try to ONLY ridicule people who's efforts are sincere. Very little
trouble has been caused in the world by insincere efforts. An occasional
seduction maybe. There were very few insincere Stalinists or Nazis." --
P.J. O'Rourke

"Some politicians actually work their butts off. But it's usually in just a
frantic, futile attempt to justify their neurotic existence." -- Bert Rand

"The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable
if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation..." -- Dr. Thomas Sowell.

"It doesn't matter whether the coercive individuals or groups identify
themselves as bandits, Mafia, Church, party, government, chief, Pharaoh,
king, high priest or president. If they initiate force, they are all simply
criminals, regardless of their aliases and pretensions." -- Jarret Wollstein

"Politicians are frightened to death of people who actually believe in
liberty." -- Neal Boortz

"When will the world wake up and realize that most politicians, especially
in the poorest countries of the world, are nothing more than glorified
gangsters who view government as simply a fiercely-guarded monopoly on
every form of compulsion and extortion to be perpetrated in a specific
geographical area? Why do you think the largest amounts of 'foreign aid'
extracted from the gullible diplomats of wealthier countries wind up in
those politicians' pockets or Swiss bank accounts, despite all the
virtuous-sounding rhetoric?" -- Bert Rand

"The one thing government has which we (you or I or any corporation) DON'T
have, is the ability to use deadly force to accomplish its goals." -- Neal
Boortz

"Ultimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter pointed
out, a powerful bureaucratic class is in the same relation to commerce as
was the scorpion in Aesop to the dog on whose back he crossed the river.
They will destroy commerce and establish socialism, even if it kills them,
because that is their nature." -- John Derbyshire

"Scratch the surface of an endemic problem -- famine, illness, poverty --
and you invariably find a politician at the source." -- Simon Carr, in his
review of The Mystery of Capital by Hernando de Soto

"There is no limit to the hunger politicians have for the money you've
worked so hard for. ... You can tell them to take a hike, but then the guns
come out." -- Neal Boortz

"Congress is a Mafia running a protection racket.. ." -- Dr. Jack Wheeler.

"The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want
you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless." --
James Dale Davidson Founder, National Taxpayers Union

"Politicians don't like empowered individuals." -- Neal Boortz

"Confronted with economic problems, politicians always blame the private
sector first ... [even] blaming the problem on the solution." -- Richard L.
Gordon

"There is no company -- no corporation on earth that engages in accounting
fraud to the extent the Imperial Federal Government of the United Sates
does. Not many congressmen are willing to come forward with the details."
-- Neal Boortz

"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit longer."
-- Henry Kissinger

"The motto of the nation's capital should be 'Land of the spree and home of
the depraved'." -- Rick Gaber

"A lot of what is called 'public service' consists of making hoops for
other people to jump through. It is a great career for those who cannot
feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do." -- Thomas
Sowell

"[Politicians] -- they'll give you everything you want to your face -- and
then, as you walk away, they'll shoot you in the back because it's fun to
watch you die." -- Bob Crandall, former president, American Airlines

"[Certain politicians] don't mind if price controls cause shortages of
health care. In fact, they welcome the prospect, because then they can
impose rationing; they can impose priorities, and tell everyone how much of
what kind of medical care they can have. And besides, ... there's that
deeply satisfying rush of power. We should know by now that reasoned
arguments by economists or disillusioned ex-controllers are not going to
stop them." -- Murray N. Rothbard

"By far the most inappropriate and ridiculous name change any major sports
team has perpetrated was the Washington Bullets' changing its name to the
Washington 'Wizards.' Give me a break." -- Rick Gaber

"The closer one gets to elections or wars, the further one gets from the
truth." -- Tony Blankley

"You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ...
Government contains impure ingredients -- as anybody who's looked at
Congress can tell you. ... government practices deceptive advertising. And
the merest glance at the federal budget is enough to convict the government
of perjury, extortion, and fraud. ... in a nutshell: government should be
against the law. Term limits aren't enough. We need jail." -- P.J. O'Rourke

(from "a revised Constitution for our times"): "Section 2: The House of
Representatives shall be composed of persons who own at least two dark
suits and have not been indicted recently." -- Dave Barry

"Why do so many busybodies, control freaks, neurotics and even psychotics
become politicians? Because they can have an effect on the world and gain
at least temporary respect without doing anything really productive. If
they're really lucky, they can even gain fame and fortune while doing
incredible long-term damage!" -- Randy Richards

"Where do politicians come from? Why, they come from Uranus!" -- Neal Boortz

"A statesman is a dead politician. Lord knows, we need more statesmen." --
Opus

"In reality, because government actions have been a major factor in forcing
up the price of health care in America, we now have the perverse situation
in which someone who either does not have access to private insurance or
qualifies for government payments must face the system out of pocket. While
politicians and their allies are fond of decrying the fact that at any
given time, millions of Americans lack health insurance, they forget that
they themselves have played a major role in creating the conditions that
have made going without health insurance a recipe for individual financial
calamity." -- William L. Anderson

"Some people have suggested that our tax laws should be simplified so that
the taxpayers could actually understand them. How could this be done? My
friend John Dorschner proposes this system: Every year, on April 15, all
members of Congress would be placed in individual prison cells with the
necessary tax forms and a copy of the Tax Code. They would remain locked in
the cells, without food or water, until they had completed their tax
returns and successfully undergone a full IRS audit. Of course this system
would probably result in a severe shortage of congresspersons. But there
might also be some drawbacks." -- Dave Barry

Whenever you consider this collecton of clowns, always remember, as Neal
Boortz says, "The one thing government has which we (you or I or any corporation) DON'T
have, is the ability to use deadly force to accomplish its goals."