Jimmy Wales on Google

"I trust Google reasonably well. But that's like saying you have a favorite politician." -- Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia, via April 2007 Fast Company article, "Why Is This Man Smiling?"

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Government Drunkenness

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

submitted via e-mail by Jordan Wagner, Sublette, Kansas

Thanks to Steve Miller for helping find the source.

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Idiots and Congress

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

submitted via e-mail by Jordan Wagner, Sublette, KS - THANKS!

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Politics and Prostitution

"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

via TIME Person of the Year: A Photo History, Ronald Reagan

Do This And Take The Whole World With You

"Action springs out of what we fundamentally desire... and the best peice of advice which can be given to would-be persuaders, whether in business, in the home, in the school, in politics, is: First, arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way." -- Harry A. Overstreet

Celebrate Dissent

"I like to think of this festival as a festival of dissent, and I'd like to celebrate that." -- Robert Redford, Sundance Film Festival founder, kicking off the annual event in Park City, Utah, with a political tone

via Reuters Notable Quotes

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"Health care decisions ought to be between doctors and patients, not by officials in Washington." -- President George W. Bush
found on AOL News - Are You a News Know-It-All?

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." -- Albert Einstein, found on the front page of On Lesotho

JFK on Political Responsibility

"We must place first the responsibility we owe not to our party or even to our constituents but to our individual consciences." -- John F. Kennedy

"Fighting for oil and those dicatorships that prop up the politics of oil is not worthy of the loss of one more American life." -- Rep. Marcy Kaptur, 7 of Diamonds in NewsMax.com's Deck of Weasels

"Politics does work better when citizens are guided by a sense of right or wrong rather than sheer expediency." -- George Soros

"Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté." -- Emmanuel Levinas

"Politics is more difficult than physics." -- Albert Einstein

"The Democrats would prefer the economy continue to stagnate from now all the way through next summer so as to be able to use it as an election issue." -- Rush Limbaugh

"Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return." -- US Secretary of State Colin Powell, in a response to the former Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey

"In politics, there's a fine line between too much conviction and too little." -- Robert J. Samuelson

"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry." -- Frank Zappa