“This was a sleight well mask'd. O, what is man,
Unless he be a Politician?”

“Propaganda is of no use to the politician unless he has something to say which the public, consciously or unconsciously, wants to hear.”

“No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician.”

“Man is free; but not unless he believes he is”

“Man is not worshipful unless he is clement.”

“There's nought but care on ev'ry han',
In every hour that passes, O:
What signifies the life o' man,
An' then she made the lasses, O.”

“A rational man must be guided by the incentive system within which he operates. No matter what his own personal desires, he must be discouraged from certain activities if they carry penalties and attracted toward others if they carry large rewards. The carrot and the stick guide scientists and politicians as well as donkeys.”

“Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved.”

“Steve-O, I don't like the man… he lost!”

“No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.”