Great Political Quotes

[Cliffy]

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." Winston Churchill

 

[Nuggler]

George Burns: Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.


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[Spade]

"For my part, I had rather be the first man among these fellows (villagers) than the second man in Rome."
CAESAR, CAIVS IVLIVS
(Julius)

 

[Tyr]

A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal.

Winston Churchill

 

[Tyr]

Facts are stupid things.

Ronald Reagan

 

[GroundWater]

"Let us be English or let us be French... and above all let us be Canadian's"

Sir John A. Macdonald

 

[Cliffy]

"Crime does not pay ... as well as politics." - Alfred E. Newman

 

[Cliffy]

"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them." - Paul Valery

 

[JLM]

"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them." - Paul Valery

"Tear down that wall"- Big Ronnie

 

[gopher]

'Trees cause more pollution than do automobiles.'

Ronald Reagan

 

[gopher]

''The Constitution is just a g****n piece of paper''

George Bush II

 

[JLM]

'Trees cause more pollution than do automobiles.'

Ronald Reagan

Bill Vanderzalm- "We'll give them shovels" (When he was first a cabinet minister and asked what he would do with people he was going to take off welfare)

 

[JLM]

Ah, Sir Winston, now there was a guy with a great gift for phrase making.

Lady Astor: If you were my husband, I'd poison your coffee.
Churchill: If I were your husband, I'd drink it.

Churchill's house keeper "Winston you're drunk"
Winston- "Bessie, you're ugly, but tomorrow I'll be sober".

 

[Spade]

"I am strongly in favor of using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes."

Winston Churchill justifying Britain's use of poison gas against the Kurds some 70 years before Hussein's crimes.

 

[JLM]

"I am strongly in favor of using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes."

Winston Churchill justifying Britain's use of poison gas against the Kurds some 70 years before Hussein's crimes.

The Germans used mustard Gas in WW1. Don't think Sir Winston had anything to do with Kurds.

 

[Spade]

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[JLM]

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Interesting, you learn something new every day.