“All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.”

Is a buffoon the same thing as an idiot, because Mark Twain was a buffoon. Failed at every thing he tried except buffoonery.

Too true!

Wow!!!

What is the old saying about: people getting the politicans they deserve ...maybe the reason we get so many idiots in office, is simply, people electing there own kind...

Mark Twain had a true wit. His quotes ring as true today as they did 150 years ago.