12-10-2022, 10:18 AM
"A politician is like quicksilver; if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it."
Austin O’Malley
"Politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth."
Paul Krugman
"If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
George Washington, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796
"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks."
Doug Larson, attributed
"I used to say that politics was the second-oldest profession. I have come to know that it bears a gross similarity to the first."
Ronald Reagan
"The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society."
Paul Krugman
” The men with the muck-rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck. “
Theodore Roosevelt
"It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Austin O’Malley
"Politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth."
Paul Krugman
"If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
George Washington, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796
"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks."
Doug Larson, attributed
"I used to say that politics was the second-oldest profession. I have come to know that it bears a gross similarity to the first."
Ronald Reagan
"The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society."
Paul Krugman
” The men with the muck-rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck. “
Theodore Roosevelt
"It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped."
Hubert H. Humphrey
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)