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- My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August.
- Ronnie Shakes
- Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
- Frank Dane
- It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Jumpers (1972) act 1
- The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5'7", it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
- John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
- When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
- Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005)
- It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
- David Brin (1950 - )
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