With Labour delegates home from their conference and making time honoured excuses to suspicious spouses and partners (I wasn't in my room at 2:30 am darling because I helping Gordon kick the shit out of Milliband) and the Conservatives about to repeat the process The Boggart Blog team are suffering from politics fatigue. This year's attack is worse than usual because we also have an election going on across the pond.
While we have a well earned rest here are some thoughts on politics garnered from The Great And Good:
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. (George Bernard Shaw)
When I was a boy, I was told anyone could become president. I'm beginning to believe it. (Clarence Darrow)
It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for any public office. (H L Mencken)
Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, Americans, It's the other lousy two percent that gets all the publicity, but then, we elected them. (Lily Tomlin)
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But, I repeat myself. (Mark Twain)
Get all the fools on your side, and you can be elected to anything. (Frank Dane)
If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal. (unknown)
What luck for rulers that men do not think. (Adolf Hitler)
Diplomacy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. (Robert Byrne)
An honest politician is one who, once he is bought, stays bought. (Simon Cameron)
A conservative is a man who wants the rules changed so that no one can make a pile the way that he did. (Gregory Nunn)
Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve evrything they've stolen. (Mort Sahl)
Conservatives are satisfied with present evils; liberals want to replace them with new ones. (unknown)
Isn't it too bad that the ONLY people who know how to run this country are either driving cabs or cutting hair? (George Burns)
Those who are too intelligent to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are stupid. (Plato)
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were. (JFK)
There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. (Mark Twain)
Politics consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. (John Galbreath)
My grandmother's brain was dead, but her heart was still beating. It was the first time we ever had a Democrat in the family. (Emo Philips)
A penny saved, is a Congressional oversight. (Hal Lee Luyah)
Are the people who run for president really the best in a country of 240 million? If so, something bad has happened to the gene pool. (Bob McKenzie)
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