Thoughts on politics

[witchdoctor]

Something to lighten the mood

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
- Winston Churchill

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
- Will Rogers

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
- Richard Armour

Why are politics and a pond similar? Because the scum always floats to the top in both!
- Linda McDonald

Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.
- Anonymous

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
- Abraham Lincoln

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
- Plato

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism.
- John Haynes

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Get thee glass eyes, And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.
- William Shakespeare

On both sides of a war, how many mothers must face the death of their sons because a politician will not face the death of one misguided opinion?
- Laura Teresa Marquez

Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
- George Orwell

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many; and "tics" meaning bloodsucking creatures.
- Robin Williams

[Tom]

"The people will believe anything -Oooooo, that's the ticket - we tell them! - Barney Frank

[Dave Schwartz]

Just excellent!

[Greyfox]

The Olympics can no more lose money, than a man can have a baby.
(The above boast was made by Mayor Jean Drapeu (Jack Flag) when Montreal won the Olympic bid in 1976. Montreal paid for more than 3 decades afterwards.)

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. .... B. H. Obama

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.
B.H. Obama



"Hostility toward America is a religious duty, and we hope to be rewarded for it by God . . . . I am confident that Muslims will be able to end the legend of the so-called superpower that is America. " Osama bin Laden




As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map,"Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

If you're going to go to bed with dogs, don’t be afraid to get up with fleas.
John Diefenbaker



A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. Winston Churchill

Great and good are seldom the same man. Winston Churchill

[Tom]

Thanks for the question, you little jerk......J McCain

[Greyfox]

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies." Groucho Marx

[ddog]

To the States, or any one of them, or any city of The States,
Resist much, obey little;
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved;
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.

Whitman


Society is like a stew--
If not stirred frequently, the scum rises to the top.

Edward Abbey

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
George Bernard Shaw

"The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level."
Norman Mailer

"We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate."
Kin Hubbard

"Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs."
PJ O'Rourke

"Making a speech on economics is a bit like pissing down your leg. It seems hot to you but never to anyone else."
Lyndon B Johnson

"You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."
Al Capone

"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."
Dr. Henry Kissinger

"Don't get excited about a tax cut. It's like a mugger giving you back fare for a taxi."
Arnold Glasow

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."
Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
Will Rogers

[lsbets]

Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.

Senator Barry Goldwater