Law and Politics

It is odd, is it not, that a person's worth to society is measured by their wealth, when instead their wealth should be measured by their worth to society.

A. Cygni, in Law and Politics and Wealth and Poverty

If half the lawyers would become plumbers, two of man's biggest problems would be solved.

Felton Davis, Jr., "Reflections on the Lake," published in The Gainesville Times (GA), in Law and Politics

I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.

Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Altruism and Cynicism and Law and Politics

Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

David Broder, in Law and Politics

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

Simon Cameron, in Altruism and Cynicism and Law and Politics

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

Albert Camus, in Law and Politics and Success and Failure

Vote early and vote often.

Al Capone, in Law and Politics

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate, in Law and Politics

Any man under 30 who is not a liberal has no heart, and any man over 30 who is not a conservative has no brains.

Winston Churchill, in Law and Politics

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Winston Churchill, in Law and Politics

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

William Cowper, in Law and Politics and Wealth and Poverty

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

Otto von Bismarck, in Law and Politics

Nowadays it's not as important for voters to know what a politician has done as what he or she hasn't done.

Edward Blakeman, in Law and Politics

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

Christian Nevell Bovee, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

Bertolt Brecht, in Law and Politics

People do not resist change -- they resist being changed.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks.

Unknown, (Russian proverb), in Law and Politics

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.

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

Politics makes strange bedfellows stranger.

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

Quigley's Law: Whoever has any authority over you, no matter how small, will attempt to use it.

Unknown, in Law and Politics