{"id":8611,"date":"2016-10-07T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=8611"},"modified":"2016-10-07T06:52:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T10:52:10","slug":"on-politics-from-macdonald-to-mandela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=8611","title":{"rendered":"On Politics &#8211; from Macdonald to Mandela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week each morning, we posted some of our favourite political quotes with the hope we might add a bit of levity to the daily barrage of news and nonsense from our country\u2019s politicians. We hope you have enjoyed the morning coffee read &#8211; <em>by George<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Politics is a game requiring great coolness. &#8211; Sir John A Macdonald<\/li>\n<li>Anybody may support me when I am right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong. &#8211; Sir John A. Macdonald<\/li>\n<li>Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. &#8211; John Kenneth Galbraith<\/li>\n<li>Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. &#8211; Lester B. Pearson<\/li>\n<li>The federal government&#8217;s trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone. &#8211; Tommy Douglas<\/li>\n<li>It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs. &#8211; Albert Einstein<\/li>\n<li>The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. &#8211; John Jay Chapman<\/li>\n<li>There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. &#8211; Indira Gandhi<\/li>\n<li>Great obstacles make great leaders. &#8211; Cree leader Billy Diamond<\/li>\n<li>Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few. &#8211; Jonathan Swift<\/li>\n<li>Politics, a strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. &#8211; Ambrose Pierce<\/li>\n<li>Gratitude is not a normal feature of political life. &#8211; Lord Kilmuir<\/li>\n<li>There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible. &#8211; Sir Alec Douglas-Home<\/li>\n<li>Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. &#8211; Dwight Eisenhower<\/li>\n<li>An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. &#8211; Simon Cameron<\/li>\n<li>The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. &#8211; P. J. O\u2019Rourke<\/li>\n<li>There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail. &#8211; Will Rogers<\/li>\n<li>In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool. \u2013 Alma Guillermoprieto<\/li>\n<li>After I&#8217;m dead I&#8217;d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. &#8211; Cato the Elder<\/li>\n<li>We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. &#8211; Nelson Mandela<\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week each morning, we posted some of our favourite political quotes with the hope we might add a bit of levity to the daily barrage of news and nonsense from our country\u2019s politicians. 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