because I was bored and decided to look some up

If you can’t convince them, confuse them. ~Harry S. Truman

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. ~Oscar Ameringer

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. ~Ronald Reagan

You can’t say ‘I don’t do politics,’ because silence is a political statement. ~Tariq Ramadan

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand. ~Milton Friedman

If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist. ~Joseph Sobran

The Democrats are the party of government activism, the party that says government can make you richer, smarter, taller, and get the chickweed out of your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work, and then get elected and prove it. ~P.J. O’Rourke

You know nothing for sure…except the fact that you know nothing for sure~John Kennedy

My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is very nice now when people wave at me, they use all their fingers.~Jimmy Carter