{"id":8594,"date":"2016-10-03T06:09:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T10:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=8594"},"modified":"2016-10-07T06:40:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T10:40:15","slug":"on-politics-from-adams-to-khruschev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=8594","title":{"rendered":"On Politics &#8211; from Adams to Khruschev"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, each morning, we will post some of our favourite political quotes to add a little spice to the on-going theatrics unfolding both on Parliament Hill and at Queen\u2019s Park. The quotes revel that politics has changed little in the thousands of years of man. <em>Enjoy &#8211; by George<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Politics are a labyrinth without a clue. &#8211; John Adams<\/li>\n<li>They [politicians] worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts. &#8211; John Adams<\/li>\n<li>Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. &#8211; Lord Acton<\/li>\n<li>Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is the highest political end. &#8211; Lord Acton<\/li>\n<li>Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign\u2026 something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life. &#8211; Plutarch<\/li>\n<li>The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself. &#8211; Bernard Crick<\/li>\n<li>The more successful a political party, the more winning its ways, the less of its time is spent casting about for policy or determining it principles. &#8211; Dalton Camp<\/li>\n<li>Under every stone lurks a politician. &#8211; Aristophanes<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not waffling. I&#8217;m skating. &#8211; Liberal MP Bob Rae<\/li>\n<li>Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. &#8211; Chester Bowles<\/li>\n<li>Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die. &#8211; Charley Reese<\/li>\n<li>Man is by nature a political animal. &#8211; Aristotle<\/li>\n<li>Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. &#8211; Alexander Hamilton<\/li>\n<li>Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. &#8211; Henry Brooke Adam<\/li>\n<li>All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. &#8211; Harry Truman<\/li>\n<li>Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. &#8211; Ronald Reagan<\/li>\n<li>The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that&#8217;s out always looks the best. &#8211; Will Rogers<\/li>\n<li>Our elections are free&#8211;it&#8217;s in the results where eventually we pay. &#8211; Bill Stern<\/li>\n<li>In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. &#8211; Charles de Gaulle<\/li>\n<li>Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. &#8211; Nikita Khruschev<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Chris George, providing reliable counsel and effective advocacy for public and government affairs. Call 613-983-0801 @<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/cgacommunications.com\/m\/\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, each morning, we will post some of our favourite political quotes to add a little spice to the on-going theatrics unfolding both on Parliament Hill and at Queen\u2019s Park. The quotes revel that politics has changed little in the thousands of years of man. Enjoy &#8211; by George &nbsp; Politics are a labyrinth&#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":[30,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594"}],"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=8594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8596,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594\/revisions\/8596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}