Random Quotes Re: Politics

"Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country 
are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. 
It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. 
But then--we elected them." 
- Lily Tomlin 

"Any American who is prepared to run for president should 
automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so." 
- Gore Vidal 

"The office of President is such a bastardized thing, half
royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit." 
- Jimmy Breslin 

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of 
Congress. But I repeat myself."
-- Mark Twain, quoted in A.B. Paine's Mark Twain: A Biography
 (Harper, 1912, Vol. 2, page
724).

"All political parties die at last swallowing their own lies." 
- John Arbuthnot 

"The more you read about politics, you got to admit that each
party is worse than the other." 
- Will Rogers 

"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always
been the systematic organization of hatreds." 
- Henry Brooks Adams 

"Politics consists of choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable." 
- John Kenneth Galbraith 

"The political alternatives in America now are like putting a
Band-Aid on cancer." 
- Shirley Maclaine 

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