Not as elegant as Ike's warning about the MIC, but here goes:

[Brigid]

"Here's a secret Intel bulletin for y'all who've never left Yoknapatawapha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the precipice of enemy invasion -- the only way this country is ever going to surrender its liberty to a foreign power is if it keeps electing corrupt officials who auction it away to multinational corporations and overseas government interests in exactly the fashion that southern star chambers have been doing to their own people throughout their entire dyspeptic history." -- Chuck Thompson, "Better Off Without 'Em"