#politic

Ladies and Gentlemen. I should like to inform you on behalf of the nation state of Guyana, that we are going to resign from being a country. We can't make it work. We have tried. We have done our best. It is not possible. The problems are insoluble. From midnight tonight, we shall cease trading. The country is now disbanded. We will voluntarily liquidate ourselves. The nation will disperse quietly, a little shamefaced but so what. We had a go. Different people have suggested different solutions. Do it this way. Try that. Let me have a go. Nothing works. We are at the mercy of the rich countries. A team of management consultants from the United States could not find the answer, and for not finding the answer, we had to pay them an amount that substantially increased our national debt. We give in, gracefully, but we give in." And then he imagined himself, quietly and with dignity, putting his papers in his briefcase, bowing to the hushed assembly, returning to clear out his office and going for a walk with his wife along the sea wall. (The Ventriloquist's Tale ↗

— Pauline Melville

#imagination

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#business

Guns are our friends because in a country without guns, I'm what's known as "prey." All females are. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#politics #second-amendment #humor

His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action. ↗

— Jennifer Crusie

#humor #politics #humor

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#politics #humor

If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it. ↗

— Criss Jami

#belief #controversial #controversy #debating #difference

Just because I like to suck cock doesn't make me any less American than Jesse Helms. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#gay-rights #humor #oral-sex #politics #humor

Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly “free” state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#freedom #government-corruption #gun-control #gun-laws #gun-rights

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#liberty #politics #religion #skepticism #freedom

I’m on a government watch list. But I’m not interested, because government watches only work twenty minutes out of every hour.
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— Jarod Kintz

#efficiency #entitled #entitlement #funny #government