October One-Liners

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