The Surreal Thread #2

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that chills one

 

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to their toes

 

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Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it." ~John Adams

 

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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. ~T.S. Eliot

 

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The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. ~Clare Boothe Luce

 

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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. ~Sydney J. Harris

 

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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. ~Bill Vaughan

 

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It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. ~Tom Stoppard, Jumpers

 

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Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. ~Author Unknown

 

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Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ~George Jean Nathan

 

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There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen. ~Author Unknown

 

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Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. ~Author Unknown

 

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Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. ~Robert Byrne

 

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Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. ~Michael Novak

 

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I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it. ~Alexander Woollcott

 

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People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing. ~Walter H. Judd

 

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~Henry Cate, VII

 

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The most important political office is that of the private citizen. ~Louis Brandeis

 

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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ~Richard Armour

 

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. ~Oscar Ameringer