I propose a Constitutional Amendment pro...

Death

I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.

- L. Neil Smith

Quote of the Day

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

- Francis Bacon

Other quotes by L. Neil Smith

Government People

Government is waging war against the people.

- L. Neil Smith

First

As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

- L. Neil Smith

First Time

It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.

- L. Neil Smith

Crime Women Men

Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.

- L. Neil Smith

Being Life

I'm tired of being considered property.

- L. Neil Smith

Fact Job People

The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

- L. Neil Smith

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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

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Death Life

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

- Steven Morrissey

Death Life

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

- Dennis Miller

Death

I wait for death and journalists.

- Jeanne Calment

Disease Death Life

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

- Edvard Munch

Death Right Want

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.

- Antonin Scalia