We shoot craps in both.
Prostitution is legal in Vegas or seems like it on the news
"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
- Ronald Reagan (R)
Orgies happen in both
Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster. ~James Harvey Robinson,
Corruption
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. ~Oscar Levant
crooks
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ~Doug Larson
Money is king and makes the guys in charge do most anything for it
Midas, they say, possessed the art of old
Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold;
This modern statesmen can reverse with ease -
Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.
~John Wolcot
As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
- William O. Douglas, judge (1898-1980)
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
- John Arbuthnot, writer and physician (1667-1735)
http://www.fhu.com/kgb-brainwashing-video.html
"Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for the law, it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy."
-Justice Louis D. Brandeis, Olmstead v. U.S.