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All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason
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be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will
exert upon events in the political field. Albert Einstein Montana Facts & Fun Web Site Of The
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Thoughts While Waiting
For The Conventions
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the
servant. de Gaulle
We live in a world in which politics has
replaced philosophy. Martin L. Gross
There are many men of principle in both parties in America,
but there is no party of principle. Alexis de Tocqueville
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies
to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly
succeed,
and are right. H.L. Mencken
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried
against the new and untried? Abraham Lincoln
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better
day,
a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. Leonard Bernstein
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We have, I fear,
confused power with greatness. Stewart Udall
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Classics From The Capital City
Politicians are the same all over.
They promise to build a bridge even where they is no river. Khrushchev
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence.
Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. Gladstone
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President;
I'm beginning to believe it. Clarence Darrow
George Washington is the only president who didn't blame
the previous administration for his troubles. Author Unknown
Truth is not determined by majority vote. Doug Gwyn
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes
have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. T.S.
Eliot
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The Democrats are the party that says government will make
you smarter, taller,
richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn.
The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work
and then they get elected and prove it. P.J. O'Rourke
Jokes that go over like a lead
balloon
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign
funds
from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. Oscar
Ameringer
Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections
is to find out if the polls were right? Robert Orben
Why pay money to have your family tree traced;
go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. Author Unknown
Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous.
In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. Winston
Churchill
In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice
presidency,
you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference. Dan
Quayle
Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied. Cheyfitz
(OWIM (Oh Well It’s Monday)
Things You
May Never
HearAt The Polls
A conservative is a man with two perfectly
good legs,
who has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt
If God had been a Liberal there wouldn't
have been Ten Commandments,
there would have been Ten Suggestions. Malcolm Bradbury
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional
campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. John Gardner (1938)
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel,
go out and buy some more tunnel. ~John Quinton
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
~Leo Rosten
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as
distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the
first time. ~Alfred E. Wiggam
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are
conserving. ~Robertson Davies
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more
people are so painfully aware of the alternative. ~John Kenneth
Galbraith, New York Times, 8 October 1989
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like
breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is... the
ultimate indignity to the democratic process. ~Adlai Stevenson,
speech, Democratic National Convention, 18 August 1956
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without
proving that you are unworthy of winning. ~Adlai E. Stevenson
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about
us, I will stop telling the truth about them. ~Adlai Stevenson,
campaign speech, 1952
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the
most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly
every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself
puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. ~Charles
Krauthammer
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to
change the locks. ~Doug Larson
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by
definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ~Gore Vidal
The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much
trouble to put makeup on two faces. ~Maureen Murphy
I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join
the unqualified men in running our government. ~Cissy Farenthold
Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother
when in doubt. ~Woodrow Wilson
I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be
left to the politicians. ~Charles de Gaulle
Politicians
say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.
~Harold Lowman
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a
speech. ~Richard Darman, director of the Office of Management and
Budget, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign
pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands
Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to
hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom.
~Plato, The Republic
The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~Henry Cate,
VII
I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by
Two Brothers, 1827
If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. ~Jay
Leno
Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their
principles for the sake of their party. ~Winston Churchill
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the
baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes
revolutionaries. ~Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt
The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have
demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of
celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a
flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be
reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy.
The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but
they wouldn't bother to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly
Pants Night at the country club. ~Dave Barry
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful
for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. ~H.L. Mencken
History is gossip but scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
~Oscar Wilde
The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
~Clare Boothe Luce
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come
to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
~Ronald Reagan
If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of
intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat. ~Vance
Packard
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
~Texas Guinan
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. ~Ambrose Bierce,
The Devil's Dictionary,1911
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. ~Emma Goldman
If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance
speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven. ~Will
Rogers
How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for
Miss America? ~Author Unknown
A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a
loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an
iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large. ~Finley Peter
Dunne, Mr. Dooley's Philosophy, 1900
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on
senators. ~Will Rogers
Midas, they say, possessed the art of old
Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold;
This modern statesmen can reverse with ease -
Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.
~John Wolcot
We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of
good men to place our Confidence in. ~Will Rogers
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
~Aesop
, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964
A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving
life's problems without asking its question. ~André Malraux
Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate
us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making
efforts to bring us together. ~Sean O'Casey
A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring,
one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
~Carl Sandburg
The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
One ought to recognize that the present political chaos is connected with
the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some
improvement by starting at the verbal end. If you simplify your
English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You
cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid
remark, its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself. Political
language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from
Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and
murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's
own habits, and from time to time, one can even, if one jeers loudly
enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase - some jackboot, Achilles'
heel, hotbed, melting pot, acid test, veritable inferno or other lump of
verbal refuse - into the dustbin where it belongs. ~George Orwell,
"Politics and the English Language," Shooting an Elephant,
1950
He's not a Republican, he's a Republican't. ~Author Unknown
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in
his conduct. ~Thomas Jefferson
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected.
The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. ~George E.
MacDonald
A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any
trace of faith in human nature. ~Murray Kempton
They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you
know that the filibuster was invented by men. ~Clare Booth Luce
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