Linux Politics

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next
week, next month and next year.  And to have the ability afterwards to
explain why it didn't happen.
                -- Winston Churchill

Politics makes strange bedfellows, and journalism makes strange politics.
                -- Amy Gorin

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the
systematic organisation of hatreds.
                -- Henry Adams, "The Education of Henry Adams"

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of matrydom to the
reformers of error.
                -- Thomas Jefferson

Populus vult decipi.
        [The people like to be deceived.]

Post proelium, praemium.
        [After the battle, the reward.]

Postmen never die, they just lose their zip.

Poverty begins at home.

Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor
people.
                -- Don Herold

Power corrupts.  Absolute power is kind of neat.
                -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987