What is your favorite political quote?

[RB]

The challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. Hillary Rodham Clinton

Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it. George Bernard Shaw

A fool is someone who is ashamed to change his mind and his politics. RB

[Cartman]

"dogs know what to do with poles" Diefenbaker

[shackwacky]

"The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."

hitler

[ndpnic]

" Survival of the fittest" refers to the survival of the Whole, Not the Individual!!!!

Nicole Evans - 1999

[Newfie Canadian]

"There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its verile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people."

Sir Winston Churchill

"There is nothing on the planet that so exemplifies 'two-faced' as a Canadian politician."

Me

[maplesyrup]

fuddle duddle or something like that.

PET

I wonder what the Hansard of the day recorded.

[RB]

how about:

I know that this government doesn't like to listen to Vancouver's mayor, so let me quote the mayor of Victoria instead

j.kwan

I know that the government doesn't have to agree with the opposition or listen to the opposition, politely or otherwise, or even show up. I know that they can heckle and they can scream and they can abuse. They have done so, as it is the tradition of this House oftentimes — for that is the theatre perhaps. That's why I think we sit two sword-lengths away

[Newfie Canadian]

There's always:

"I'm not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons."

Liberal leader John Turner, in the Commons.

[fellowtraveller]

Assume the position

Christmas wishes from the Liberal Party of Canada

[I miss Reagan]

A neo-conservative is a liberal who was mugged by reality. - Irving Kristol

or

With out the US, Canada would be Honduras but colder and a lot less interesting. - Tucker Carlson

[Big Blue Machine]

There's

"Just watch me"

"You're not going to save anyone from anything with this performance tonight"

"Obviously Mr Speaker the opposition has no taste"

"Why Mr Speaker do we only talk about the things in this country that don't work"

"In politics, perception is reality"

[August1991]

The quality of mercy is not strained,

it falleth like the gentle rain upon the place beneath.

I disagree with what you say but I will defend to my death your right to say it.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[theloniusfleabag]

"To the best of my recollection, we did not break the law" Col. Oliver North, Iran-Contra scandal.

"To the best of my recollection, we did nothing wrong" William Casey, CIA director, Iran-Contra scandal.

"I don't remember anything" Pres. Ronald Reagan, Iran-Contra scandal.

[Newfie Canadian]

"Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies. Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder. What unites us is far greater than what divides us."

JFK

[Scotty]

The buck stops here. - Harry S Truman

This is a phrase unknown to modern politicians, especially in Canada, where blaming someone else is the name of the game. Whatever happens, it's always someone elses fault.

[RB]

ok if you see any good lines from our Mapleleaf posters give them some credits - post it here!! alas pls no bashing though

On Justice:

Believe nothing against another but upon good authority:

Nor report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to others to conceal it

Penn

[Vanni Fucci]

"My friends, watch out for the little fellow with an idea."

“I don’t mind being a symbol but I don’t want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I’ve seen what the pigeons do to them.”

--Tommy C. Douglas -- THE Greatest Canadian!

[Pateris]

"And if the British Empire should last for a thousand years, let them still say that this was their finest hour"

Winston Churchill

[The Terrible Sweal]

We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independant, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these ends, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, & to institute new government, laying it's foundation on such principles & organising it's powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety & happiness.

[kimmy]

That's a good choice.

-kimmy

[The Terrible Sweal]

Yeah. It's the 'rough draft' version that really get's the point.

[fellowtraveller]

Unfortunately it makes the common error that all men are created equally, which is patently wrong.

More correct would be a statement that all people must be treated equally.

[ceemes]

Politics Part One:

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.

Politics Part Two:

Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over again, too. Who decides?

Lazarus Long aka Robert A. Hienlien.

[August1991]

It is always a temptation

To a rich and lazy nation,

To puff and look important and to say:

'Though we know we should defeat you,

We have not the time to meet you,

We will therefore pay you cash to go away.'

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;

But we've proved it again and again,

That, if once you have paid him the Dane-geld,

You never get rid of the Dane.

[Bakunin]

from a song of "les cowboys fringants"

Si la vie vous intéresse

Vous êtes à la bonne époque

Venez célébrer cette Grand-messe

Vous vous sentez inutiles?

Consommez! On a du stock

Pour combler l'trou de vos vies serviles!

Finis les temples et les églises

Ceux de notre civilisation

S'ront à la gloire des marchandises

Et du Dieu la Consommation

Costco, Wall Marde et pis Loblaw

La vie est belle Alleluia!

Si tu bandes pas y'a Viagra

Et God Bless America!