Quotes at FreedomKeys:

Judge Gideon J. Tucker, 1866:

"No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session."

Will Rogers:

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

"It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it."

"The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best."

"A politician is just like a pickpocket; it's almost impossible to get him to reform."

P.J. O'Rourke:

"Giving money and power to the government is like giving car keys and whisky to teenage boys."

"When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics."

"Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty -- their power and privilege -- to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians."

"God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell."

"Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs."

Joseph Sobran:

"The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that a pickpocket doesn't always get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself."

"Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money -- only for wanting to keep your own money."

Unknown:

It was so cold outside, I saw a politician that had his hands in his OWN pockets.

There was an honest politician, a drunk, and Santa Claus walking down the the street and saw a $20 bill lying on the floor. Which one picked it up?

Thomas Jefferson:

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.

To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Benjamin Franklin:

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.

He that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.

This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

...a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles...is absolutely necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty and keep a government free.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and more frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Will Rogers:

Income tax has made liars out of more people than golf has.

The National Institutes of Health have announced that they will no longer be using rats for medical experimentation. In their place, they will use attorneys and politicians. They have given three reasons for this decision:

1. There are now more attorneys than there are rats.
2. The medical researchers don't become as emotionally attached to the attorneys as they did to the rats.
3. No matter how hard you try, there are some things that even rats won't do.

The only problem with this: It is harder to translate the results to humans.