Alphabetical Index of Topics

1. There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers
2. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers
3. For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. - Bob Wells
4. There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. - Bertrand Russell
5. It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. - Voltaire
6. Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins
7. So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. - Sir Winston Churchill
8. You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature. - George W. Bush
9. After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood. - Fred Thompson
10. The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. - William H. Borah
11. Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. - Richard M. Nixon
12. The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P. J. O'Rourke
13. You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too. - John Kenneth Galbraith
14. Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. - Harry S Truman
15. The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. - H. L. Mencken