"If a politician can't find a job for a friend, he shouldn't be in office." - Charles Youngblood, drain commissioner of Wayne County, Michigan

“All conservatives are not stupid. However, most stupid people are conservatives.” - Benjamin Disraelli

“The Rightists are conducting their own private battle. They are against Communism without being for freedom. They are against ignorance without being for education. They are against sin with being for God.” - J. Edgar Hoover  (Mitch’s note: I cannot believe J. Edgar Hoover is attributed with this quote. He was a very intolerant SOB himself.)

“Congress should probably spend more time obeying the Ten Commandments and less time trying to exploit them for crass political purposes.” - Barry Lynn

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. - Plato

For the past few days, Congress has been debating the ethics of cloning. For many in Congress this is their first experience with the subject - not with cloning, but ethics.... - Jay Leno

"Don't let a lack of qualifications stop you from pursuing your career goals. I was never qualified for any of the positions I achieved."- U.S. Representative Sonny Bono (R-California) in a National Enquirer article, "I'm living Proof You Can Have the American Dream"

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. -Henry Kissinger

"Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation." - Unknown

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. - Simon Cameron

America today faces a choice of destinies. We can choose to be a peacemaker of the world, or its policeman who goes about night-sticking troublemakers until we, too, find ourselves in some bloody brawl we cannot handle. --Patrick Buchanan, Political Commentator (I cannot believe Patrick Buchanan actually makes sense.)

"What makes him think a middle-aged actor, who's played with a chimp, could have a future in politics?" -Ronald Reagan commenting on Eastwood's bid to become mayor of Carmel.

"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel." - Robert Frost

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them. -Calvin Coolidge

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind. - Mikhail Gorachev

"We need to support our troops, they've done an outstanding job, but we also have to ask the right questions. That is the role of Congress. We're a co-equal branch of government. I don't think we ought to rubber-stamp any president, as we get into these difficult decisions."-- Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, Rejecting criticism that democratic demands were unpatriotic while keeping up pressure on President Bush to tell Congress more about America's war on terrorism

"Those who try to stifle the vibrancy of our democracy and shield policies from scrutiny behind a false cloak of patriotism miss the real value of what our troops defend. We will continue to ask questions and we will defend our democracy... Their contrived, planned political response was one of the greatest overreactions of all time, because no one in this country has done anything except express support for our troops and honor their service." -- Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., accusing Republicans of hiding behind a "false cloak of patriotism" as they attacked Democrats for questioning White House plans to expand the war on terrorism

"Enron is a classic case of a company whose market value is very significantly dependent on the reputation of the firm. Trust and reputation can vanish overnight. A factory cannot." -- Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, telling the House Financial Services Committee that when investigators collect all the evidence, they will find that Enron's collapse was triggered by financial markets' sudden loss of confidence in the company

"In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes." -Adlai Stevenson

"It's not a question of prejudice. The World Trade Center was blown up and so was the Pentagon. We have thousands and perhaps hundreds of thousands or millions of people who hate America and are trying to destroy Israel. We need an alarm because this country is under attack... I'm quoting directly from the Koran. 'Fight and slay the pagans wherever you find them. Seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them. Fight them. Allah will punish them.' Now, that is the message that's coming out of the mosques. You're not hearing Christian ministers telling people to go kill Muslims."--- Pat Robertson, reiterating that Islam preaches violence and indicating that Osama bin Laden was a true follower of Islam's founder, the Prophet Mohammed

"I could come here ... with quotes from the Talmud and quotes from the Bible and try to paint Judaism and Christianity, or any other religion, in this negative light too. I think that is ... a really despicable and sick game. What he was saying overall is, 'Look, in our midst, next to you there are Muslim neighbors; there are Muslims among us. And they may look normal, they may seem to be normal, reasonable people, but actually they are not... This is a slightly warmed over, slightly rehashed version of anti-Semitism." --- Hussein Ibish, a spokesman for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, dismissing Robertson's remarks

I think it will take years before we can repair the damage done by that statement." -- Former President Jimmy Carter, criticizing President Bush's labeling three countries an "axis of evil," saying the statement was "overly simplistic and counterproductive" and seriously jeopardized progress made with North Korea, Iran and Iraq in recent years

I am strongly in favor of common sense, honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. - H.L.Mencken

"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates." - Gore Vidal