Funny Political Quotes and Sayings
The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else. ~ Julian Barnes. Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. ~ Bertrand Russell. Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. ~ Paul Valéry. A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he’s someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it. ~ Tom Stoppard. The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him. ~ Edward Murrow. Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. ~ John K. Galbraith. Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do. ~ Will Rogers. The notion of a defence that will protect American cities is one that will not be achieved, but it is that goal that supplies the political magic in the President’s vision. ~ James Schlesinger. |
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