Wednesday, August 23, 2000

Some thoughts on politics:


Politics is war without bloodshed, and war is politics with blood.
-Mao Tse-Tung


In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
-Charles De Gaulle


Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
-Alexander Pope


Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics

1. Get Elected.

2. Get Re-elected.

3. Don't get mad, get even.



Deep down he is shallow. -Political saying


I pledge you, I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled consitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and courage. This is a call to arms.

-Franklin D. Roosevelt accepting Presidential nomination, 1932

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