Politics Quotes by Charley Reese

Experience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute - not much to recommend them.

— Charley Reese

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient…

— Charley Reese

A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly…

— Charley Reese

Given the low level of competence among politicians, every American should become a libertarian. The government that governs least is certainly the…

— Charley Reese

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

— Charley Reese

Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous people. A…

— Charley Reese

When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.

— Charley Reese

The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

— Charley Reese

And just think, fellow Southrons, what kind of a Confederate nation we could have, if after independence, politicians abandoned equivocation and spoke…

— Charley Reese

Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing…

— Charley Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

— Charley Reese

Make sure the government treats others the same as you would want the government to treat you. ...Once you consent to the…

— Charley Reese

Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.

— Charley Reese