This week, each morning, we are posting some of our favourite political quotes. Enjoy – by George,
- Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. – Herbert Hoover
- Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. – Ambrose Bierce
- Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. – Charles De Gaulle
- Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies. – Dalton Camp
- Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important. – Eugene McCarthy
- Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. – Mark B. Cohen
- Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy. – Chris Chocola
- Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. – Michael Novak
- Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens – and then everybody disagrees. – Boris Marshalov
- Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. – Sydney J. Harris
- Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras…. As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty. – William A. Niskanen
- A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon – it won’t work and you can’t fire it. – George S. Patton
- Talk is cheap – except when Congress does it. – Cullen Hightower
- Bureaus are extrusions from the body politic – they are pus. – Martin H. Fischer
- The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. – William E. Borah
- The happiest thing that can be said about democracy… is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility. – H.A. Overstreet
- I’m tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn’t work. Of course it doesn’t work. We are supposed to work it. – Alexander Woollcott
- Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave. – Pericles
- In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of the state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state. – Baron de Montesquieu
- Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us. – P.J. O’Rourke
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