[reporters-guide]
- It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
-James Fenimore Cooper
- The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
-H. L. Mencken
- What luck for rulers that men do not think.
-Adolf Hitler
- By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell — and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.
-Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf
- The great masses of the people… will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
-Adolph Hitler
- It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting.
-Tom Stoppard
- In democracy its your vote that counts.; In feudalism its your count that votes.
-Mogens Jallberg
- America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-Bobcat Goldthwaite
- Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
-The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
-Benjamin Franklin
- When in a politcal battle, punch hard lest your chad remain in the balance.
-Suesie Hempfling
- I’ve taken several seats from you across the United States.
-Tim Downs
- The first rule is, you keep counting until you’re ahead. And if that doesn’t put you ahead, you recount, re-recount — you keep counting until you’re ahead. If you’re behind, then you’ve got nothing to lose.
-Pat Nolan Quoting Tim Downs
- The more times those ballots are handled, the more chance there is that chads will break loose.
-Pat Nolan Quoting Tim Downs
