Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [61-80] of 386 Humor quotesHumor QuotesHumor Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.~ George Burns They misunderestimated me.~ George W. Bush There should be some schools called deformatories to which people are sent if they are too good to be practical.~ Samuel Butler Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?~ Sen. Robert C. Byrd I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.~ John Cage An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.~ Simon Cameron The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls.~ Father Robert F. Capon If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.~ Orson Scott Card Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.~ Thomas Carlyle Contrariwise", continued Tweedledee, "If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.~ Lewis Carroll Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.~ Douglas Casey The problem with political jokes is they get elected.~ Henry Cate VII There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?~ Dick Cavett Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types -- the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton A fanatic is a person who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.~ Sir Winston Churchill This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.~ Sir Winston Churchill This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But, it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.~ Sir Winston Churchill Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print