Linux Politics

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism
to decadence without touching civilization.
                -- John O'Hara

America: born free and taxed to death.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the
benefit of his country.
                -- Sir Henry Wotton, 1568-1639

An American's a person who isn't afraid to criticize the president but is
always polite to traffic cops.

An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in
small as in great matters.
                -- W. Churchill

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"