George Will

"Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least."

Robert Byrne

"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time."

E. B. White

"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."

Aristotle

"Diplomacy is the art of saying Nice doggie until you can find a rock."

Will Rogers

"Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?"

Robert Orben

"El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice."

Dan Quayle

"Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor."

Lady Bird Johnson

"Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians."

Charles Krauthammer

"For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred."

John W. Gardner

"Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues."

Thomas Hobbes

"Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is."

Edward Kennedy

"Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance."

William O. Douglas

"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be."

Daniel J. Boorstin

"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."

A. J. Liebling

"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

Gore Vidal

"He loved politicians - even Republicans."

Margaret Truman

"He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers."

Henry B. Adams

"He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander."

Napoleon Bonaparte

"Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned."

Milton Friedman

"Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against."

W. C. Fields

"I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all."

William Gilbert

"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."

Margaret Thatcher

"I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian."

John G. Diefenbaker

"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change."

Dan Quayle