Quotes About Government

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Politics is applesauce.

Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.

Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.

On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How's the President'

There is good news from Washington today. Congress is deadlocked and can't act.

There ought to be one day - just one - where there is open season on senators.

We have the best Congress money can buy.

If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're actually paying for.

There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.

There is no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.