Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
Arthur C. Clarke 

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton (1834-1902) 

Pro is to con as progress is to congress.
Anonymous 

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
Justice William O. Douglas 

Rise like lions after slumber in invanquishable number -- Shake your chains to earth like dew which in sleep had fallen on you -- ye are many -- they are few.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) 

Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side in the course of mankind if our creeds agree?
Thomas Moore (1779-1852) 

Stupid is as stupid does, sir!
Tom Hanks  , Actor, in Forrest Gump

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) 

The ballot is stronger than the bullet
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)  , 1856

The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.
Alben W. Barkley  , former Vice President