Law and Politics

Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

 Benjamin J. Montalbano, in  Law and Politics

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

 H. H. Munro, in  Law and Politics

The masses have little time to think. And how incredible is the willingness of modern man to believe.

 Benito Mussolini, in  Law and Politics and  Wisdom and Ignorance

America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.

 Napoleon, in  Law and Politics

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

 Napoleon, in  Law and Politics

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

 George Jean Nathan, in  Law and Politics

Crime does not pay... as well as politics.

 A. E. Newman, in  Law and Politics

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.

 Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, in  Law and Politics

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

 Robert Orben, in  Law and Politics

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

 George Orwell, 1984, in  Law and Politics

He who would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

 Thomas Paine, in  Law and Politics

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

 Laurence J. Peter, in  Law and Politics

Politician: From the Greek "poly" ("many") and the French "tête" ("head" or "face," as in "tête-à-tête": head to head or face to face). Hence "polytetien," a person of two or more faces.

 Martin Pitt, in  Law and Politics

Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

 L. R. Powell, in  Law and Politics

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

 Henry Louis Mencken, in  Law and Politics

This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper.

 Jeffrey Miller, Naked Promises (Lord Evershed), in  Law and Politics

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

 Eugene McCarthy, in  Law and Politics

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

 Henry Louis Mencken, in  Law and Politics

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

 Otto von Bismarck, in  Law and Politics

Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many.

 Howard Koch, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in  Law and Politics