“It is expecting too much for a politician to be sincerely interested in the free flow of information.”

        — Graham Perkins

“The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.”

        — Alex Carey

“The freedom of others extends mine infinitely.”

        — May 1968 Graffiti #

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”

        — Isaac Asimov

“Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think.”

        — Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

“A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.”

        — James Freeman Clarke

“It is expecting too much for a politician to be sincerely interested in the free flow of information.”

        — Graham Perkins

“The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’.”

        — Larry Hardiman

“The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.”

        — Alex Carey

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”

        — Isaac Asimov

“Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between.”

        — Alfred E. Neuman

“It is expecting too much for a politician to be sincerely interested in the free flow of information.”

        — Graham Perkins

“When you’re in that voting booth with just your conscience and a pen, take the pen because that’s all you’ll ever get out of them.”

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

        — Plato

“Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.”

        — George Jean Nathan

“Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.”

        — John Quinton

“He was jeopardising his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.”

        — Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal”

        — Emma Goldman

“Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It’ll be the only one trying.”

        — Jack Lang

“The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.”

        — Alex Carey