Thoughts about politics and society

[EskimoBluDay]

The taxpayer, that's someone who works for the federal government but
doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
-- Ronald Reagan

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from
barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
-- John O'Hara

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis
is alive?
-- Irv Kupcinet

Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient
capital to form a corporation.
-- Howard Scott

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

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent,
hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that
get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
-- Lily Tomlin

[zanna]

Loved that, ebd. Sent it off to several people I thought would appreciate it.

zanna

[EskimoBluDay]

Here are a few more:

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on
senators.
-- Will Rogers

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
-- Aesop

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more
statesmen.
-- Bob Edwards

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress.
But I repeat myself.
-- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly
American criminal class except Congress.
-- Mark Twain

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know
whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty.'
-- Theodore Roosevelt

[Chy]

I like!

[Biker Bill]

That is very good i like it.

[EskimoBluDay]

And a few more:

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

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is
thought necessary.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it
is largely a waste of time.
-- H. L. Mencken

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that
you end up being governed by your inferiors.
-- Plato

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though
it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

[indigo]

Great stuff!

[Hopefloats]

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[EskimoBluDay]

For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat,
and wrong.
-- H. L. Mencken

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many
rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
-- Ronald Reagan

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do
nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen

[EskimoBluDay]

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

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out
twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."
-- H. L. Mencken

[EskimoBluDay]

The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go
to erase it.
-- Glaser and Way

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his
fellow citizens.
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge
even where there is no river.
-- Nikita Khrushchev

[EskimoBluDay]

The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance
to do something stupid.
-- Art Spander

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
-- W. C. Fields

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make
it stop.
-- P. J. O'Rourke

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each
party is worse than the other.
-- Will Rogers

[EskimoBluDay]

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing
a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen

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

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better
lawyer.
-- Robert Frost

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
-- James Thurber

And that concludes all the quotes on politics and society that I have accumulated thus far. Next, look for the new thread on stupidity starting tomorrow. Love to all.