Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb

Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to. ~Author Unknown

Gossip needn’t be false to be evil - there’s a lot of truth that shouldn’t be passed around. - Frank A. Clark

The biggest liar in the world is They Say. - Douglas Malloch

Political corruption begins with every voter who votes his pocketbook instead of for what’s good for the country. There is little difference between the selling of his vote by an elected official and the selling of his vote by a voter, to whatever candidate promises him some benefit. — Jon Roland 1974

“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evilminded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.” — Justice Louis D. Brandeis

In politics nothing gets done until you first create a channel of corruption.
— Jesse Cuellar 1982

“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.”
–David Brin

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.” - Ernest Hemingway

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. - Logan Pearsall Smith

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. - Simon Cameron