Quotes about the government

"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress."
-- John Adams

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself."
-- Mark Twain

"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
-- Winston Churchill

"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
-- George Bernard Shaw

"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."
-- James Bovard

"Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries."
-- Douglas Casey

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
-- P.J. O'Rourke

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
-- Will Rogers

"In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other."
-- Voltaire

"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."
-- Pericles (430 B.C.)

"No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session."
-- Mark Twain

"Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it."
-- Anonymous

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery."
-- Winston Churchill

"The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin."
-- Mark Twain

"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools."
-- Herbert Spencer

"There is no distinctly native American criminal class... save Congress."
-- Mark Twain

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. government can't pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our government's reckless fiscal policies. ... Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' " --

Barack Hussein Obama 44th President of the United States - Source: 20 March 2006, prior to voting against a debt ceiling increase in the Senate

=


" If there was ever a time in the modern history of America that the American people should become engaged in what's going on here in Washington, now is that time."

Bernie Sanders: July, 2011 - The longest serving independent member of Congress in American history.


=

Funny Quotes

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.
- George Burns

Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.
- Victor Borge

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain


My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
- Jimmy Durante

My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.
- Rodney Dangerfield
 
Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was SHUT UP .
- Joe Namath

I don't feel old.. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap.
- Bob Hope

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.
- Will Rogers

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.
- Billy Crystal

And the cardiologist's diet: - If it tastes good spit it out.

"Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure. But we're in a stage of denial: we want to re-establish things as they used to be, to put the country back where it was."


- James Hillman

I Used to Date THIS Man (Not the author, the person the author describes)

"His appearance gives no clue to what his profession might be, and yet he doesn't look like a man without a profession either. Consider what he's like: He always knows what to do. He knows how to gaze into a woman's eyes. He can put his mind to any question at any time. He can box. He is gifted, strong-willed, open-minded, fearless, tenacious, dashing, circumspect—why quibble, suppose we grant him all those qualities—yet he has none of them! They have made him what he is, they have set his course for him, and yet they don't belong to him. When he is angry, something in him laughs. When he is sad, he is up to something. When something moves him, he turns against it. He'll always see a good side to every bad action. What he thinks of anything will always depend on some possible context—nothing is, to him, what it is: everything is subject to change, in flux, part of a whole, of an infinite number of wholes presumably adding up to a super-whole that, however, he knows nothing about. So every answer he gives is only a partial answer, every feeling an opinion, and he never cares what something is, only 'how' it is—some extraneous seasoning that somehow goes along with it, that's what interests him."

-THE MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES [1942] Robert Musil

Today's Quote

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever."

Lance Armstrong
Cancer Survivor and Athlete

Today's Quote

Kindness in words creates confidence…Kindness in thinking creates profoundness..Kindness in giving creates love.

~ Lao Tzu

Today's Quote

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

— Danny Kaye

Today's Quote

Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.

— George Bernard Shaw

"It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going."

— Brian Tracy

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, Poet and Essayist

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Psychiatrist

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

— Napoleon Hill

"Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored."

Earl Nightingale
1921-1989, Radio Announcer, Author and Speaker

"It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions."

Jim Rohn
Author and Speaker

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

T.S. Eliot
1888-1965, Poet and Critic

The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.

— Abraham Lincoln

"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within."

— Earl Nightingale

Today's Quote

"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."

Washington Irving
1783-1859, Author