POLITICS

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Posted on 27th September 2012 by Administrator in Economy |Politics |Social Issues

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in. I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. – H.L. Mencken

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me.  They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. – H.L. Mencken

Our current political system ensures not that the worst will get on top — though they often do — but that the best will never even apply. – Paul Jacob

Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags. – David Harsanyi

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office seeking. — Rutherford B. Hayes, 1878

The personal qualities necessary for attaining office are practically the opposite of those demanded by the office itself.  The trouble with the damn system is that it selects for the skills needed to get elected, and nothing else.  A test that you can only pass by cheating can’t possibly select honest people. — James P. Hogan

[Political] offices are as acceptable here as elsewhere, and whenever a man casts a longing eye on them, a rottenness begins in his conduct. — Thomas Jefferson, 1799

You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest. — Ambrose Bierce

1 Comments

  1. Celtic Tiger says:

    Politics comes from two Greek words: Poli – many, and Tics – blood-sucking insects.

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    27th September 2012 at 4:16 pm

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