Frank Zappa Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  "W. C. Privy's Original Bathroom Companion". Book by Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo (p. 134), 2003.

• Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an 'inconvenience.' We have opted instead for an authoritarian system disguised as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those assholes got in there.

  Frank Zappa

  Government, Democracy, Tests

• Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too.

  Frank Zappa

  Media, Guy, Politics

  Song: The Central Scrutinizer

• Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

  Frank Zappa

  Business, People, Political

  "W. C. Privy's Original Bathroom Companion". Book by Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo (p. 134), 2003.

• A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, People, Drug

  Senate hearing on Porn Rock and the PMRC, 1985.

• Republican is fine, if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair, if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them's really right, cause neither of them care.

  Frank Zappa

  Care, Politics, Causes

• Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

  Frank Zappa

  Branches, Politics, Entertainment

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

• Just be glad you don't live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or as it is in Iran, totally illegal.

  Frank Zappa

  Country, Iran, Politics

• Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.

  Frank Zappa

  Air, Law, Water

  Song: The Central Scrutinizer

• The NRA, with the fingers on the triggers when they kneel and pray.

  Frank Zappa

  Politics, Praying, Nra

• All that we got here is American made. It's a little bit cheesy, but it's nicely displayed.

  Frank Zappa

  Cheesy, Politics, Littles

• Roller-skates and disco are a lot of fun, I'm much too young and stupid to operate a gun.

  Frank Zappa

  Fun, Stupid, Gun

• Journalism is kind of scary and of it we should be wary.

  Frank Zappa

  Scary, Politics, Journalism

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