{"id":1300,"date":"2016-11-29T06:46:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T11:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2016-11-28T22:54:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T03:54:26","slug":"humourist-quotes-on-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1300","title":{"rendered":"Humourist Quotes on Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his. &#8211; Ronald Reagan<\/li>\n<li>Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There&#8217;s nothing to do but to stand there and take it. &#8211; Lyndon Johnson<\/li>\n<li>Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else. &#8211; Lyndon Johnson<\/li>\n<li>Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. &#8211; Abraham Lincoln<\/li>\n<li>Being president is like running a cemetery: you&#8217;ve got a lot of people under you and nobody&#8217;s listening. &#8211; Bill Clinton<\/li>\n<li>Once you leave the womb, conservatives don&#8217;t care about you until you reach military age. Then you&#8217;re just what they&#8217;re looking for. &#8211; George Carlin<\/li>\n<li>In Washington, we know there&#8217;s a huge difference between a prostitute and a politician. There are some things a prostitute won&#8217;t do. &#8211; Sen. Claire McCaskill<\/li>\n<li>They call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it. &#8211; George Carlin.<\/li>\n<li>They say it&#8217;s the responsibility of the media to look at government \u2014 especially the President \u2014 with a microscope. I don&#8217;t argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it&#8217;s going too far. \u2013 Richard Nixon<\/li>\n<li>A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. &#8211; Alfred E. Wiggam<\/li>\n<li>If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. &#8211; Albert Einstein<\/li>\n<li>Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions. &#8211; Albert Einstein<\/li>\n<li>Vote early and vote often. \u2013 Al Capone<\/li>\n<li>If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.\u00a0&#8211; Jay Leno<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it. &#8211; Mark Twain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Chris George provides reliable PR &amp; GR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer and experienced communicator? Call 613-983-0801 @<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/cgacommunications.com\/m\/\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his. &#8211; Ronald Reagan Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There&#8217;s nothing to do but to stand there and take it. &#8211; Lyndon Johnson Did you ever think that making&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[30,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300"}],"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=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8808,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions\/8808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}