“Ultimately, people would respond a lot better to being treated like adults ... if politics wasn't treated like marketing,”
Jon Stewart
“If you can't convince them, confuse them.”
Harry S Truman
“You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself”
Mark Twain
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet”
“Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires”
Bertrand Russell