Political Quotes

[JerrySeinfeld]

Since it's a friday why not share some of your favorite political quips.

My favorite source of this is PJ O'Rourke so I'll contribue a few of my favorites:

To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.

These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.

The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know.

Ecology is the science of everything. Nobody knows everything. Nobody even knows everything about any one thing. And most of us don't know much. Say it's ten-thirty on a Saturday night. Where are your teenage children? I didn't ask where they said they were going. Where are they really? What are they doing? Who are they with? Have you met the other kids' families? And what is tonight's pot smoking, wine-cooler drinking, and sex in the backseats of cars going to mean in a hundred years? Now extend these questions to the entire solar system.

Being gloomy is easier than being cheerful. Anybody can say "I've got cancer" and get a rise out of a crowd. But how many of us can do five minutes of good stand-up comedy?

A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing either, you can worry yourself to death.

Even the bad things are better than they used to be. Bad music, for instance, has gotten much briefer. Wagner's Ring Cycle takes four days to perform while "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" by the Crash Test Dummies lasts little more than three minutes.

American children grow up to be valuable citizens. Bangladeshi children grow up to be part of the world population problem.

Fretting about overpopulation, is a perfect guilt-free - indeed, sanctimonious - way for "progressives" to be racists.

Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.

Most of the research about species extinction has been conducted on islands because islands are controlled environments and scientists can get drinks with little umbrellas in them there. (...) Island logic also tells us that an increase in habitat size means an increase in number of species. But it doesn't necessarily. You can build your bed as large as you like and still get very few people to sleep with you.

OK - quite a few but if you're interested in contributing it could be humoruous...

[JerrySeinfeld]

OK - ONE more...

People with a mission to save the earth want the earth to seem worse than it is so their mission will look more important.

[M.Dancer]

Winston Churchill

"National Compulsory insurance for all classes for all puposes from cradle to grave."

"There is no finer investement for any community than putting milk into babies"

[JerrySeinfeld]

Winston Churchill

"National Compulsory insurance for all classes for all puposes from cradle to grave."

"There is no finer investement for any community than putting milk into babies"

O'Rourke:

Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.

[jester]

CHURCHILL:

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

Agreat man if only for the quotes, they still work for today as well.......

[leonardcohen]

One of my favorite Churchillian quotes goes as follows,''The greatest argument against Democracy is to spend an hour with the average voter''.

[geoffrey]

One of my favorite Churchillian quotes goes as follows,''The greatest argument against Democracy is to spend an hour with the average voter''.

The cornerstone of my democratic beliefs in fact.

[Electric Monk]

Politicians are like diapers. They should both be

changed frequently and for the same reason.

--Anonymous

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to

one who is striking at the root.

--Henry David Thoreau

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

--Henry David Thoreau

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to

all other countries because you were born in it

--George Bernard Shaw

[Figleaf]

"No fist is big enough to hide the sky."

-African Proverb

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake"

- Napoleon Bonaparte