Great Truths Politicians

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Great Truths Politicians

1. We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice. — Woody Allen. American film director and comedian.
2. Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk. — Bertolt Brecht.
3. Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. — Ambrose Bierce.
4. Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three-need supervision. — Richard Armey.
5. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. — John Adams.
6. If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. — Mark Twain.
7. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself… — Mark Twain.
8. I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. — Winston Churchill.
9. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. — George Bernard Shaw.
10. If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin. — Samuel Adams.
11. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. — G. Gordon Liddy.
12. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. — P.J. O’Rourke, Civil Libertarian.
13. Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. — Ronald Reagan.
14. Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege. — Noam Chomsky
15. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free! — P. J. O’Rourke.
16. The problem with political jokes is they get elected. — Henry Cate VII
17. In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. — Charles de Gaulle
18. Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction. — W. H. Auden.
19. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. — Winston Churchill.
20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. — Mark Twai.
21. The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skilfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. — Frederic Bastiat.
22. Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. — Ernest Benn.
23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians — Edward Langley, Artist.
24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. — Thomas Jefferson.
25. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton.
26. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is the highest political end. — Lord Acton.
27. We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. — Abigail Adams.
28. When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them. — Franklin P. Adams.
29. Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. — Henry Brooks Adams.
30. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. — Aesop.

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The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.  (Larry Hardiman)

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.  (Simon Cameron)