Politicians nowadays treat Americans like medical orderlies treat Alzheimer's patients, telling them anything that will keep them subdued. It doesn't matter what untruths the people are fed because they will not long remember. But in politics, forgotten falsehoods almost guarantee new treachery.
James BovardIf so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.
James BovardThe vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.
James BovardEntire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.
James Bovard