Political Quotes

"I always left that room feeling like a cheap prostitute who'd had a busy day" - Sen. Zell Miller on political fund raising, 2002.

"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry" - George Eliot, 1866

"Vote early and vote often," the advice openly displayed on the election banners in one of our northern cities -William Porcher Miles, American politician, 1858

"There is nothing wrong with this country which a good election can't fix" - Richard Nixon, 1968

"You won the elections, but I won the count" Nicaragua's dictator, Anastazio Somoza, 1935

"The American political system is like a gigantic Mexican Christmas fiesta. Each political party is a huge pinata -- a papier-mache donkey, for example. The donkey is filled with full employment, low interest rates, affordable housing, comprehensive medical benefits, a balanced budget and other goodies. The American voter is blindfoled and given a stick. The voter then swings the stick wildly in every direction, trying to hit a political candidate on the head and knock some sense into the silly bastard." - P.J. O'Rourke

"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us". - Justice William O. Douglas

"Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government"" - Lenny Bruce