{"id":1252,"date":"2017-01-27T13:14:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T18:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2017-01-30T22:38:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T03:38:48","slug":"humourous-quotes-from-the-world-of-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1252","title":{"rendered":"Humourous quotes from the world of politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I think of some of the statements made here I begin to think that we are living is a new age of paleontology \u2013 political paleontology \u2013 the invertebrate age, which is government without a backbone. &#8211; John G. Diefenbaker<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. &#8211; Groucho Marx<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats are the party of government activism, the party that says government can make you richer, smarter, taller, and get the chickweed out of your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn&#8217;t work, and then get elected and prove it. &#8211; P.J. O&#8217;Rourke<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The enemy isn\u2019t conservatism. The enemy isn\u2019t liberalism. The enemy is bullshit. &#8211; Lars-Erik Nelson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. &#8211; Ambrose Bierce<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman&#8217;s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. &#8211; Ambrose Bierce<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself. &#8211; Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a recent fire Bob Dole&#8217;s library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn&#8217;t even finished coloring one of them. &#8211; Jack Kemp<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? &#8211; Abraham Lincoln<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke. &#8211; Will Rogers<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Chris George, providing reliable PR &amp; GR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer and experienced communicator? 613-983-0801 @\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/cgacommunications.com\/m\/\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I think of some of the statements made here I begin to think that we are living is a new age of paleontology \u2013 political paleontology \u2013 the invertebrate age, which is government without a backbone. &#8211; John G. Diefenbaker &nbsp; Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[30,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8973,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/8973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}