"I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple." - Thomas Jefferson
"Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?" - Art Buchwald
"No public man can be just a little crooked." - Herbert Hoover
"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote." - George Jean Nathan
"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt." - Herbert Hoover
"I would suggest the taxation of all property equally whether church orcorporation." - Ulysses S. Grant
"Public opinion in this country is everything." - Abraham Lincoln
"Ecology has become the political substitute for the word "mother". - Jesse Unruh
"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." - Eden Phillpots
"I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space." - Carl Sagan
"Someday I would like to stand on the moon, look down through a quarter of a million miles of space and say, 'There certainly is a beautiful earth out tonight.'" - Lieutenant Colonel William H. Rankin
"Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor." - Justice William O. Douglas
"Show me the man who doesn't want his gun registered, and I will show you a man who shouldn't have a gun." - Homer Cummings
"With all the violence and murder and killings we've had in the United States, I think you will agree that we must keep firearms from people who have no business with guns." - Robert F. Kennedy (5 Days Before His Assassination)
"The problem of the cities...is the most urgent, the most difficult, and the most frightening American domestic problem...since the Civil War." - Joe Alsop
"We are faced with a choice between the work ethic that built this nation's character - and the new welfare ethic that could cause the American character to weaken." - Richard M. Nixon
"Behind each beautiful wild fur there is an ugly story. It is a brutal, bloody and barbaric story. The animal is not killed - it is tortured. I don't think a fur coat is worth it." - Mary Tyler Moore
"Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family." - Bella Abzug
"No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother." - Margaret Sanger
"Justice is incidental to law and order." - J. Edgar Hoover
"The tragic lesson of guilty men walking free in this county has not been lost on the criminal community." - Richard M. Nixon
"The necessary and wise subordination of the military to civil power [must] be sustained." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?" - Ramsey Clark
"The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour unto it, the more it will contract." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"A predjudiced person will almost certainly claim that he has sufficient warrant for his views." - Gordon W. Allport