Politics Quotes
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice. Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class. Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is. Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be. Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws.
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