Miscellany

"They've managed to keep their unemployment low although their overall unemployment is high." 
- President Bill Clinton, discussing taxes and employment

"We are in favor of a law which absolutely prohibits the sale of Sunday, but we are against it's enforcement." 
- 1920's Democreatic platform in Syracuse

"On the basis that it is essential and economical, economical for the country and for Congress to have food available around here."
- Rep. Jamie Whitten (D-MS) on why food subsidies were being cut for the poor but kept for the House and Senate restaurants.


"When we got into office, the thing that surprised 
me most was that things were as bad as we'd been 
saying they were."
- John F Kennedy 

"There are instances where it is in the best interests 
of the nation not to vote the will of the people."  
-Tip O'Neill

"Young people, do not be led astray by the theory of voting for the man and not for the party.  Vote the straight Republican ticket regardless of the qualifications of the candidate for office."
- C. J. Travis, Supreme Court of Indiana, 1920's

"Those who vote for this bond issue will be putting a rope around their necks which will suck at their vitals like a deadly vampire." 
- remark overheard during a congressional debate

"In the the words of George Bernard Shaw - 'Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by.'"
- Ind. Gov. Evan Bayh, in a speech to the Education Commission of the States, calling for educational excellence and misattributing  Robert Frost's famous poem

"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder." 
- George Washington 

"Avoid popularity if you would have peace." 
- Abraham Lincoln 

"The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are." 
- Franklin D. Roosevelt 

"Wait a minute! I'm not interested in the agriculture. 
I want the military stuff."
-Senator William Scott (R-Va.) during a Pentagon briefing.

"Wennlund has an obscure, undistinguished record, and he's a poor dresser, too."
- Ray Hanania, candidate for IL state rep, referring to incumbent Larry Wennlund.

"Have faith in me. I am a Christian." 
- Jimmy Carter 

"We're going to move left and right at the same time."
- Jerry Brown, Governor of California

"We'd like to avoid problems, because when we have problems, 
we can have troubles."
- Governor Wesley Bolin

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