CLASSIC POLITICAL SAYINGS

And I have to add my comment to the State GOP Chair after he made a statement disrespecting a bloc of new party activists:

Without the wingnut, you get a loose screw.

... in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.
- Mark Twain

"The fact of the matter is, I think ..... blah blah blah." - George Mitchell

Let me be perfectly clear....

Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently and all for the same reason.

How dangerous it always is to reason with insufficient data.

We've seen the enemy -- and it is us!

Walt Kelley's Pogo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H. L. Mencken

Vic, the first and last quotes in your opening post are two I really like. And this is one I have long subscribed to -

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. – Plato

I never had sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinski

His success as a liar is legendary.

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. - H.L. Mencken

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." —Groucho Marx

The late Senator Heflin when asked about photo of Ted Kennedy on a boat w/ scantily clad women ,
in his best Foghorn Leghorn voice,
"I am pleased to see the senator has changed his stance on off shore drilling"

Another one from Mark Twain that applies very well to Maine.

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

An honest politician, once purchased, stays bought.

Mis-attributed to former Ill. Senator Everett Dirksen:

"A billion here and a billon there, pretty soon we're talking real money."

charlie

"There go my people. I must find out where they're going so I can lead them." - a leader in the French Revolution, quoted by John F. Kennedy in a 1960 campaign speech and in an episode of The West Wing.

"We have to pass the bill so we can find out what's in the bill".

--Nancy Pelosi on the alleged "Affordable Care Act".

As a political junkie from an early age, in the summer between my 5th and 6th grade years I put on my Sunday go-to-church suit and roamed the 1956 GOP National Convention activities in downtown San Francisco. I wandered into the ballroom of the St. Francis Hotel, which was the media headquarters.

I spotted Hearst columnist Bob Considine and offered my autograph book for him to sign. As he took it, I asked him what was going on. The autograph answered:

Vic,

If anybody knew what is really going on, they wouldn't waste their time here.

Bob Considine

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- A. Lincoln

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, and that's really all it takes.
- G. Carlin

"After all, the chief business of the American people is business." - President Coolidge

After serving in Congress for a few terms, Davy Crockett was defeated in 1835 and told the people of Tennessee, "You can all go to Hell and I'm going to Texas."

People before politics. Candidate Paul LePage.

So much for that.

Read my lips, no new taxes....

If you can't dazzle with with brilliance, baffle them with bull*

I have always supported measures and principles and not men. - Davy Crockett

I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty. - Davy Crockett

I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog. - Davy Crockett

Crockett would never make it today, but damn, I admire him.

"There's not a dime's worth of difference between the Republicans and Democrats." George Wallace

Great thread all

"My job is a decision-making job. And as a result, I make a lot of decisions." George W. Bush

I'm not cynical about the two party system, I believe what the Democrats say about the Republicans and what the Republicans say about the Democrats