"You can't expect people to unite behind you if you're
trying to jam a whole bunch of things down their throat"
--investor and former Obama supporter Warren Buffett
"The great advances of civilization, whether in
architecture or painting, in science or in literature,
in industry or agriculture, have never come from
centralized government."
--economist Milton Friedman (1912-2006)
"We have rights, as individuals, to give as much of our
own money as we please to charity; but as members of
Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of
public money."
--American hunter, frontiersman, soldier and
Tennessee congressman,
Davy Crockett (1786-1836)
"Politics are not the high class, marvelous thing that
lots of you picture. Our whole government workings
are crammed with 'baloney.'"
--humorist Will Rogers (1879-1935)