Political Quotes

By Lance M Hillier Sr

 


Political Quotes - Various ones I've collected over the years; attribution sometimes given, others were caught while listening to radio or reading over someone's shoulder or in waiting rooms...
"Outside of the killings in Washington DC, we have one of the lowest crime rates in the nation." -- Marion Berry
"I resent your insinuendoes."
 "If we don't make some changes, the status quo will remain the same."
 "We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."
 "I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate." -- Dan Quayle

"If Lincoln were alive today, he'd roll over in his grave."
 "We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report."
 "Candidly, I cannot answer that. The question is too suppository."
"Let's jump off that bridge when we come to it."
 "To be demeanered like that is an exercise in fertility."
 "I deny the allegations, and I defy the allegators."
 "If somebody's gonna stab me in the back, I want to be there."

"When you're talking to me, keep your mouth shut."
 "Let's do this in one foul swoop."
 "I want to thank each and every one of you for having extinguished yourselves in this session."
 "We'll run it up the flagpole and see who salutes that booger."
"I would like to take this time to reirritate my remarks."

"The average age of a 7 year old in this state is 13."
 "I hate to confuse myself with the facts."
 "We have a permanent plan for the time being."
 "Family planning has many misconceptions."
"The people in my district do not want this highway bypass, no matter if it goes through or around the city."

"My knowledge is no match for his ignorance."
"As long as I am in the Senate, there will not be a nuclear suppository in our state."
"These numbers are not my own; they are from someone who knows what he's talking about."
"People planning on getting into serious accidents should have their seat belts on."
"In 1994, Americans stand on the horns of an enema."
**************************And for those waiting with bated breath, the best political humorist of all time in my opinion: Will Rogers:
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?"
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing -- and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
A fool and his money are soon elected.
About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
Our Constitution protects aliens, drunks, and U.S. Senators.

"If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"~~Will Rogers

One of Life Little Mysteries.

I've often asked this question myself "Why do ordinarily rational people defend giving away money to the already rich?" At their own poverty stricken expense? I've always considered it a form of religion: "You have to believe in the delusion before you can understand why they do it"

However, the underlying link gives some thought to the matter and a request for restraint. How dumb do you have to be before you realize you are cutting your own financial throat?

http://thepragmaticprogressive.org/wp/2011/06/07/why-do-the-poor-continue-to-defend-tax-breaks-for-the-rich/

Why Obama Cannot be Beat in 2012

 The top 10 reasons that I believe that President Obama will be reelected.


1 - Higher food prices will only help make Americans stay thinner and more healthy

2 - Higher fuel prices will help make people walk and/or make families stick at home to spend quality time together.

3 - He has spent so much time on luxury vacations and on entertainment TV that people have learned to live vicariously through him and would feel lost if he was not out having fun.

4 - High unemployment means that parents have more time with their children

5 - The promise of Amnesty for illegal immigrants means that we will no longer need to work but can let others do it for us.

6 - He won the  Nobel Peace Prize so it is ok that he is leading in 3 different wars and looking to possibly put us in a fourth. This is great entertainment for us Americans, we need the modern coliseum for our fun.

7 - Working hard to increase the national debt so we can enjoy our lives and hope to be dead before the bill is due.

8 - Devaluing home values and increasing failed mortgages means that we all will have nice small apartments that will be easier to clean.

9 - We no longer need to worry about telling our doctor what is wrong with us, Obama care will now take care of that.

10 - A huge portion of people who say they plan on voting for him in 2012 also claim to get most of their political information from Comedy Central.

Life is absolutely wonderful..... lets enjoy it.

Time to Leave Washington

An interesting letter in the Australian Shooter Magazine this week:

"If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq Theater of operations during the past 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers.

The firearm death rate in Washington, DC is 80.6 per 100,000 for the same period. That means you are about 25 per cent more likely to be shot and killed in the US capital which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the U..S., than you are in Iraq.

Conclusion: The U.S. should pull out of Washington.

Difference Between a Leader and an Egoist

George W. Bush speech after capture of Saddam:

The success of yesterday's mission is a tribute to our men and women now serving in Iraq . The operation was based on the superb work of intelligence analysts who found the dictator's footprints in a vast country. The operation was carried out with skill and precision by a brave fighting force. Our servicemen and women and our coalition allies have faced many dangers in the hunt for members of the fallen regime, and in their effort to bring hope and freedom to the Iraqi people. Their work continues, and so do the risks. Today, on behalf of the nation, I thank the members of our Armed Forces and I congratulate 'em.

Barack Obama speech after killing of bin Laden:

And so shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda, even as we continued our broader efforts to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat his network. Then, last August, after years of painstaking work by our intelligence community, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden. It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to ground. I met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan . And finally, last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action, and authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice. Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad , Pakistan .

Another End Time Prophecy.

There are many sects among different religions that predict an end to the world. The predicted date will come and pass but the die hard true believers will just go along and warn that the next date is true no matter how often they were wrong in the past. The biggest cult to have failed with their predictions and still have a substantial following is those of the Man Made Global Warming Cult (MMGWC).

1988 - "Congressional Expert" In 20-25 years we should expect temperatures to be 20 degrees warmer

2006 - "In five years there will be no more snow in North America" Congressman

Tim Flannery “The water problem is so severe for Adelaide that it may run out of water by early 2009.”

Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg - In 2006 “between 30 and 40 per cent of coral on Queensland’s great Barrier Reef could die within a month”.

Dr David Barber he predicted that 2009 "the Arctic’s first ice-free year”

The MET has so far predicted 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2007 would be the world’s hottest or second-hottest year on record, but nine of the past 10 years it predicted temperatures too high.

Guru Al Gore is famous for making many false predictions but he is the Pope of the new cult so if you attack the man by simply pointing out what he has said wrong over and over then you should prepare to have the faithful come knocking.

There are literally thousands of false predictions but the fact is that Man Made Global Warming has turned into nothing but another cult. It does not matter how many times their Gurus are wrong because these people have greater faith then most people who listen to Family Radio.

The Family Radio people did not want to destroy your lives, nor did they want to legislate your every move so I find them not near as crazy or dangerous as the MMGW cult.

Poor? Then Your Kids Are Probably Fat !!!

The simple fact about the "poor" in America is that they are not poor in comparison to other countries of the world. "The food you eat, how much exercise you get and which zip code you call home. These are all things that can make you fat, according to a public health study. Dr. Lauren Smith, medical director for the state Department of Public Health, traced a direct correlation between child obesity rates and a community’s median household income."

This is probably the first time in the history of the world that the poorer you are the more obese you will probably become. The argument that poor people can only afford high caloric and highly processed food is actually a mute one because even if they could not afford "healthy" food they could still buy a can of corn. 

I am not against the idea that the poor should not be helped but I am against the idea that the poor do not have ANY responsibility to take care of their children. I believe that much of the problems stems from the fact that we have taught generations of people that they have no responsibility for their actions..... what do you think?

http://www.enterprisenews.com/lifestyle/health_and_beauty/x1291971400/Study-finds-community-income-related-to-child-obesity