Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of th… - P. J. O'Rourke

A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty — their power and privilege — to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians

The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.

In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailing-boat equipment, the gin and tonic.

The most extraordinary change in Moscow was Arbat Street, the USSR's first pedestrian mall. Of course, there's something a little sad about a pedestrian mall in a nation where few people own cars— the whole damn country's a pedestrian mall.