{"id":910,"date":"2010-04-05T22:27:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T02:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=910"},"modified":"2010-04-05T22:27:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T02:27:19","slug":"on-politics-from-cicero-to-bill-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=910","title":{"rendered":"On politics &#8211; from Cicero to Bill Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">The budget should be balanced; the treasury refilled; public debt should be reduced; the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled; and assistance to foreign lands should be limited, lest the State become bankrupt.\u00a0\u00a0 The people should be forced to work and not depend on Government for assistance. &#8211; Marcus Tullius Cicero<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. \u2013 Tacitus<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">The word government is from the Greek word, which means \u2018to steer\u2019.\u00a0 The job of government is to steer,\u00a0not to row the boat.\u00a0 Delivering services is rowing and government is not very good at rowing. &#8211; E. S. Savas<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">One law for lion and ox is oppression. &#8211; William Blake<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. \u2013 Anonymous <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">What makes equality such a difficult business is that we only want it with our superiors. &#8211; Henry Becque<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Power worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue.\u00a0 Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem invincible. &#8211; George Orwell<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">There is not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people. &#8211; Hubert Humphrey<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Machiavelli&#8217;s Prince has lasted as long as it has, not because it&#8217;s a cynical work about power, but because it&#8217;s an instructional guide for those who do not accept fatalism and determinism and need all the cunning at their disposal to overcome it. \u2013 Robert Kaplan <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Geography and history have to be overcome, but they can never be denied. \u2013 Robert Kaplan<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy. &#8211; Charles Frankel<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">The art of government is the organization of idolatry. &#8211; George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt. &#8211; Viscount Snowden<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">An atomic energy plant can slip through parliament easily.\u00a0 A rug in a mayor\u2019s office \u2013 an issue everyone can understand \u2013 can tie up a municipal council for ages.\u00a0 The risk is asymmetric.\u00a0 In government, what gets you in a hassle is seldom the huge decisions that were clearly wrong, it\u2019s the little things that that were clearly trivial by comparison. &#8211; Anonymous <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Business and government administration are alike in all unimportant respects. &#8211; Wallace Sayre<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">It\u2019s a billion here and a billion there; the first thing you know it adds up to real money. &#8211; Senator Everett Dirksen<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. &#8211; P. 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O\u2019Rourke<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Majority rule only works if you&#8217;re also considering individual rights.\u00a0 Because you can&#8217;t have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.\u00a0&#8211; Larry Flynt<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal. &#8211; Donald Rumsfeld<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won&#8217;t come true because they don&#8217;t even mean them &#8211; campaign fantasies that win elections but don&#8217;t get nations moving again. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8211; Bill Clinton <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The budget should be balanced; the treasury refilled; public debt should be reduced; the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled; and assistance to foreign lands should be limited, lest the State become bankrupt.\u00a0\u00a0 The people should be forced to work and not depend on Government for assistance. &#8211; Marcus Tullius Cicero The more&#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],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910"}],"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=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}