The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
-- George Orwell AA

In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
-- R. A. Butler AA

There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers AA

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
-- Laurence J. Peter AA