MY FAVORITE POLITICAL QUOTES AND
MORE LINKS TO DELIGHT & DISGUST
(links are a surprise this time)
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." ~Groucho Marx
[prescient clip below from 2000]
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." ~Winston Churchill [link] and [link]
"Noise proves nothing--often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid." ~Mark Twain [link]
"Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel." ~John Quinton [link]
"The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces." ~Maureen Murphy [link]
"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other." ~Oscar Ameringer [link]
"Hell, I never vote for anybody. I always vote against." ~W.C. Fields [link]
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." ~Winston Churchill [link] and [link]
"Noise proves nothing--often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid." ~Mark Twain [link]
"Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel." ~John Quinton [link]
"The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces." ~Maureen Murphy [link]
"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other." ~Oscar Ameringer [link]
"Hell, I never vote for anybody. I always vote against." ~W.C. Fields [link]
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