Here are October’s addition to the one-liners collection. They are all political one-liners taken from the computer game Tropico 4 (but I assume they are all actual quotes).
- “Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.” — Dwight Eisenhower
- “My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.” — Benjamin Disraeli
- “Governments never learn. Only people learn.” — Milton Friedman
- “I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.” — Augusto Pinochet
- “Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.” — Nikia Khruschev
- “Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.” — Nicolas Gomez Davila
- “If I could do it all again, I’d be a farmer.” — Mobutu Sese Seko
- “The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them will win.” — Will Rogers
- “I am an Environmentalist. … I am for clean air.” — Ronald Reagan
- “Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.” — Henry A. Kissinger
- “The great thing about Democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.” — Art Spander
- “An ideal form of government is Democracy tempered with assassination.” — Voltaire
- “Under Capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite.” — John Kenneth Galbraith
- “If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.” — Donald H. Rumsfeld
- “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, it was planned that way.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” — Plato