Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Politics

 


"The one thing I couldn't stand about being an MP was my constituents." - Gyles Landreth
 
"No matter what your political affiliation, go far enough toward either extreme and you'll eventually find yourself with chickens and an organic garden." - John Bosworth

"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds." - Henry Adams

"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

“Young political reporters are always told there are three ways to judge a politician. The first is to look at the record. The second is to look at the record. And third, look at the record." - Molly Ivins

"You cannot complain about both political apathy and electoral fraud." - Andy Zaltzman

"A politician is a person who remembers names and forgets promises." - Lorrie B. Potters

"There are two things that are important in politics.  The first is money.  I can't remember what the second is." - Senator Mark Hanna (R-OH)

"Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first." - Charles DeGaulle

"Murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest will openly be taught and practiced." -The Connecticut Courant reacting to Thomas Jefferson's election to the presidency 

"This bill isn't going anywhere. This (hearing) seemed to me to be held for campaign purposes so I brought my signs and bumper stickers, but I misinterpreted the context." -Representative Barney Frank (D-MA)

"Democrats taking over the committees in the Senate is the equivalent of the Bolsheviks taking over from the czar during the Russian revolution." -Marshall Wittmann, the Hudson Institute, May 2001

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