Politics Will Never Change

It is good to see that the state of the political process has been unchanged. So with all the empty promises and mis-guided agendas, I am glad that I was not lulled into a state of complete ignorance. So forgive me, when every fours years, I am not flying banners, painting my face, wearing "Promise" buttons, or shedding tears while I am am dusting off ticker-tape. Throughout history, the process has not changed, the usual suspects are still playing the same roles, and the confidence in hope is still running amuck. If only society would funnel this type of passion into other areas of their lives...hhhhhhmmmmm.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake. - Napoleon I (1769-1821) Napoleon Bonaparte. French general.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions. - Horace (BC 65-8) Latin lyric poet.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Unknown Source

The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar. -
Unknown Source

The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view. - Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924) Twenty-eighth President of the USA.

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. - Marshall Mcluhan (1911-1980) Canadian communications theorist and educator.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins. - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist, satirist and social critic.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one. - Plato (BC 427-BC 347) Greek philosopher.

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice. - Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) 26th president of the U.S.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish writer.

A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and doctors. I don't believe it. They are simply the people we are most afraid of. And with the most reason. - Unknown Source

Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office. - Unknown Source

Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids. - Unknown Source

Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place. - Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) Dutch humanist and theologian.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) American historian, journalist and novelist.

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth. - W. H. Auden (1907-1973) English-born poet and man of letters

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life. - William Blake (1757-1827) British poet and painter.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American newspaperman and short-story writer.

Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics. - Albert Camus (1913-1960) French novelist, essayist and dramatist.

Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen. - Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British politician.