Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
George Will

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
Robert Byrne

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
Robert Orben

El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
Dan Quayle

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
Lady Bird Johnson

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
John W. Gardner

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
Edward Kennedy

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
William O. Douglas

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
A. J. Liebling

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Henry B. Adams

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
Milton Friedman

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
W. C. Fields

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
William Gilbert

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
Dan Quayle