{"id":2279,"date":"2011-09-23T08:38:22","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T12:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2011-09-23T08:38:22","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T12:38:22","slug":"some-favourite-quotes-on-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2279","title":{"rendered":"Some favourite quotes on politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1001-205x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2261\" title=\"1001-205x300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1001-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. &#8211; Napoleon Bonaparte<\/li>\n<li>Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. &#8211; Chester Bowles<\/li>\n<li>Nearly all men can withstand adversity; If you want to test a man&#8217;s character, give him power. &#8211; Abraham Lincoln<\/li>\n<li>Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. &#8211; John Quinton<\/li>\n<li>Power only tires those who don&#8217;t exercise it. &#8211; Pierre Trudeau<\/li>\n<li>The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. &#8211; Winston Churchill<\/li>\n<li>A campaign is about defining who you are &#8211; your vision and your opponent\u2019s vision. \u2013 Donna Brazile<\/li>\n<li>However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. &#8211; Winston Churchill<\/li>\n<li>No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. &#8211; Rush Limbaugh<\/li>\n<li>Governments propose, and oppositions dispose. &#8211; John G. Diefenbaker<\/li>\n<li>The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency. &#8211; Eugene J. McCarthy<\/li>\n<li>There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty. &#8211; Margaret Thatcher<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These quotes are taken from <strong><em>1001 Quotes on Politics, Elections, Democracy and Government<\/em><\/strong>. Read more on this publication and how to get your own copy here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2260\">https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2260<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. &#8211; Napoleon Bonaparte Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. &#8211; Chester Bowles Nearly all men can withstand adversity; If you want to test a man&#8217;s character, give him power. &#8211; Abraham Lincoln Politicians are people who, when they see light at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[14,30,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279"}],"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=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2282,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions\/2282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}