Linux Politics

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

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians.  When
bought they stay bought.
                -- Bill Moyers

Anarchy may not be a better form of government, but it's better than no
government at all.

"...and the fully armed nuclear warheads, are, of course, merely a
courtesy detail."

And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, for if you hit a man
with a plowshare, he's going to know he's been hit.

And yet, seasons must be taken with a grain of salt, for they too have
a sense of humor, as does history.  Corn stalks comedy, comedy stalks
tragedy, and this too is historic.  And yet, still, when corn meets
tragedy face to face, we have politics.
                -- Dalglish, Larsen and Sutherland, "Root Crops and
                   Ground Cover"

Andrea: Unhappy the land that has no heroes.
Galileo: No, unhappy the land that needs heroes.
                -- Bertolt Brecht, "Life of Galileo"

Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.
                -- Pyrrhus

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
                -- Aesop

        "Any news from the President on a successor?" he asked hopefully.
        "None," Anita replied.  "She's having great difficulty finding someone
qualified who is willing to accept the post."
        "Then I stay," said Dr. Fresh.  "I'm not good for much, but I
can at least make a decision."
        "Somewhere," he grumphed, "there must be a naive, opportunistic
young welp with a masochistic streak who would like to run the most
up-and-down bureaucracy in the history of mankind."
                -- R.L. Forward, "Flight of the Dragonfly"

Anybody that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years
organising and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
                -- David Broder