A Collection of superb, hard hitting, humorous comments on govt, politics, bureaucracy.

 

*"In my many years I have come to a conclusion, ... that one useless man is a shame, two [useless men] is a law firm and three or more [useless men] is a government."*

~John Adams 

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*"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed."*

~Mark Twain 

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*"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 

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*"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."*

~George Bernard Shaw  

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

~ Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University 

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

~Mark Twain (1866)

                             

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*"The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other."*

~ Ronald Reagan  

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

~Mark Twain 

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*"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."*

~Aesop  

                

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*"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!"*

~P.J. O'Rourke