Quotes on politics...

"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."

                                                              ~Charles de Gaulle


Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

                                                              ~Ronald Reagan



There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

                                                              ~Will Rogers



When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

                                                               ~P.J. O'Rourke


If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

                                                              --- Abraham Lincoln


There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

                                                              ---John Adams