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- Hypocrisy is the vaseline of political intercourse.
- Billy Connolly on ABC's "Head Of the Class"
- I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
- Dalton Camp
- We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.
- James Madison (1751 - 1836), (attributed)
- Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
- Alain van der Heide
- People ask me if I've ever been called a Nazi. I answer that no one has ever had dreams of being tied down and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal.
- P.J. O'Rourke
- A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
- Sir Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953)
- I can't see the point in the theatre. All that sex and violence. I get enough of that at home. Apart from the sex, of course.
- Baldrick - Sense and Senility
- CALIFORNIA: From Latin 'calor', meaning "heat" (as in English 'calorie' or Spanish 'caliente'); and 'fornia', for "sexual intercourse" or "fornication." Hence: Tierra de California, "the land of hot sex."
- Ed Moran, Covina, California
- Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.
- Franz Xavier Kroetz
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