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From my experience politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at – you know and the soapbox routine. They’re much more uneasy knowing they’re a target of ridicule.

Carl Hiaasen Experience Quote
It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it and still be home by Christmas.

Ronald Reagan Home Quotes
People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts neglecting children destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

Keith Henson Family Quote
The American people are not just being taxed to death they’re being taxed after death. But no one should have to sell the life’s work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.

J. D. Hayworth Death Quote
So after awhile you can only get so much happiness from a guy who’s drunk come up and tell you you’re great.

Rick Derringer Happiness Quote
Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them.

Government is by its very nature a destroyer of liberties the Obama administration specifically is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.

Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private industry so why are we so quick to doubt that the same great results can be achieved by putting the government’s justice-dealing branch on the same market-based course?

Under the administration of George W. Bush you will recall federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting.

We are watching industries crumble Wall Street firms disappear unemployment spike and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton’s or Abraham Lincoln’s?

Thomas Frank Government Quotes