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jersey3730 All-Star Author New Jersey Posts:718 Points:28,405 Joined:Mar 2005	Message Posted: Jul 1, 2005 6:33:59 AM Ignore jersey3730 Report Abuse It is said that politics is the second oldest profession, I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. Ronald Reagan (just named the Greatest american ever)

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It is said that politics is the second oldest profession, I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Ronald Reagan
(just named the Greatest american ever)

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RockCity Champion Author Denver Posts:7,910 Points:1,427,110 Joined:Mar 2009	Message Posted: May 22, 2013 5:45:59 AM Ignore RockCity Report Abuse A good government is one "which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread that it has earned. -- Thomas Jefferson
RockCity Champion Author Denver Posts:7,910 Points:1,427,110 Joined:Mar 2009	Message Posted: May 21, 2013 5:56:23 AM Ignore RockCity Report Abuse Read my lips. No new taxes. -- George H.W. Bush
RockCity Champion Author Denver Posts:7,910 Points:1,427,110 Joined:Mar 2009	Message Posted: May 20, 2013 7:46:39 AM Ignore RockCity Report Abuse George W. Bush cannot out-talk Al Gore. Period. Mr. Gore thinks faster on his feet and is much more verbal. So if that is the criteria, Gore won the debate. But if that is the criteria, Don Rickles should be President. -- Bill O'reilly
RockCity Champion Author Denver Posts:7,910 Points:1,427,110 Joined:Mar 2009	Message Posted: May 19, 2013 5:21:23 AM Ignore RockCity Report Abuse When the law’s on your side, pound the law. When the facts are on your side, pound the facts. And when neither is on your side, pound the table. -- Unknown
Passer Champion Author New Jersey Posts:18,217 Points:2,302,335 Joined:Jan 2004	Message Posted: May 19, 2013 2:35:14 AM Ignore Passer Report Abuse "The GOP Is Overplaying Its Hand Like A Young Boy First Entering Puberty" Gasbuddies.com 2013 "Political Bumper stickers" Topic
RockCity Champion Author Denver Posts:7,910 Points:1,427,110 Joined:Mar 2009	Message Posted: May 18, 2013 2:57:15 AM Ignore RockCity Report Abuse A politician thinks of the next election - a statesman of the next generation. -- James Freeman Clarke
rjhenn Champion Author Des Moines Posts:22,438 Points:2,228,950 Joined:Aug 2005	Message Posted: May 17, 2013 7:10:47 PM Ignore rjhenn Report Abuse "IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line." The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce
RockCity Champion Author Denver Posts:7,910 Points:1,427,110 Joined:Mar 2009	Message Posted: May 17, 2013 5:21:54 AM Ignore RockCity Report Abuse What do Washington's politicians and pro wrestlers have in common?... They're mostly overweight white guys pretending to hurt each other. -- Unknown
RockCity Champion Author Denver Posts:7,910 Points:1,427,110 Joined:Mar 2009	Message Posted: May 16, 2013 7:53:23 AM Ignore RockCity Report Abuse We have women in the military, but they don't put us in the front lines. They don't know if we can fight or if we can kill. I think we can. All the general has to do is walk over to the women and say, "You see the enemy over there? They say you look fat in those uniforms." -- Elayne Boosler
101Speedster Champion Author Ventura Posts:30,418 Points:2,716,670 Joined:May 2005	Message Posted: May 15, 2013 8:09:12 PM Ignore 101Speedster Report Abuse "Trust me. No one making less than $250,000 per year in this country will see their taxes go up." ???????
Edger Champion Author Pittsburgh Posts:40,211 Points:2,471,110 Joined:Apr 2005	Message Posted: May 15, 2013 12:05:58 PM Ignore Edger Report Abuse 'Whether it is secretly targeting patriotic Americans participating in the electoral progress or reporters exercising their First Amendment rights, these new revelations suggest a pattern of intimidation by the Obama Administration.' - Doug Heye
ncclyde Champion Author Charlotte Posts:15,228 Points:2,403,415 Joined:Dec 2005	Message Posted: May 15, 2013 5:39:44 AM Ignore ncclyde Report Abuse "Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and force a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right—a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this a right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government, may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize, and make their own, of so much territory as they inhabit." Abraham Lincoln 1848 He obviously changed his view, or, as politicians do, he says whatever will garner him more support at the time.
RockCity Champion Author Denver Posts:7,910 Points:1,427,110 Joined:Mar 2009	Message Posted: May 15, 2013 5:08:06 AM Ignore RockCity Report Abuse China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders. -- Chou En Lai
noseatbelt Champion Author Indiana Posts:7,622 Points:205,230 Joined:Feb 2004	Message Posted: May 14, 2013 6:45:17 PM Ignore noseatbelt Report Abuse at this point, what difference does it make? pelosi, showing how truly ignorant she is.
Edger Champion Author Pittsburgh Posts:40,211 Points:2,471,110 Joined:Apr 2005	Message Posted: May 14, 2013 6:37:49 PM Ignore Edger Report Abuse “How do you get retroactive tax-exempt status when you haven’t even applied to get it in the first place?” - Ken Boehm Referencing the Barack H. Obama Foundation
SE3.5 Champion Author Indianapolis Posts:17,017 Points:3,165,515 Joined:May 2004	Message Posted: May 14, 2013 5:36:59 PM Ignore SE3.5 Report Abuse "I see nothing." --Sgt. Schultz (also Obama, Carney, and Holder)
MahopacJack Champion Author New York Posts:8,011 Points:1,582,995 Joined:Feb 2008	Message Posted: May 14, 2013 2:08:02 PM Ignore MahopacJack Report Abuse "I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
RockCity Champion Author Denver Posts:7,910 Points:1,427,110 Joined:Mar 2009	Message Posted: May 14, 2013 6:28:23 AM Ignore RockCity Report Abuse If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. -- Samuel Adams
MahopacJack Champion Author New York Posts:8,011 Points:1,582,995 Joined:Feb 2008	Message Posted: May 13, 2013 6:57:40 PM Ignore MahopacJack Report Abuse "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - Today's fortune cookie
Duperza Veteran Author Pittsburgh Posts:336 Points:107,915 Joined:Jan 2013	Message Posted: May 13, 2013 12:49:24 PM Ignore Duperza Report Abuse "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." -Ben Franklin
RockCity Champion Author Denver Posts:7,910 Points:1,427,110 Joined:Mar 2009	Message Posted: May 13, 2013 4:40:52 AM Ignore RockCity Report Abuse Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid- twentieth century -- Noam Chomsky
Passer Champion Author New Jersey Posts:18,217 Points:2,302,335 Joined:Jan 2004	Message Posted: May 12, 2013 5:13:17 PM Ignore Passer Report Abuse "and there appears to always be truth in casual remarks (supposedly meant to be a joke), especially when said by the horse's mouth itself..." Especially when it is said about coming out of the mouth of a horse of a different color. However, that doesn't take into account that ANY person who can't totally understand humor usually speaks out of the wrong end of the horse, themself. [Edited by: Passer at 5/12/2013 5:20:35 PM EST]
RockCity Champion Author Denver Posts:7,910 Points:1,427,110 Joined:Mar 2009	Message Posted: May 12, 2013 8:13:03 AM Ignore RockCity Report Abuse Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. -- Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.
RockCity Champion Author Denver Posts:7,910 Points:1,427,110 Joined:Mar 2009	Message Posted: May 11, 2013 5:54:16 AM Ignore RockCity Report Abuse Politicians hide themselves away. They only started the war. Why should they go out into a fight?... They leave that all to the poor. -- Black Sabbath
RockCity Champion Author Denver Posts:7,910 Points:1,427,110 Joined:Mar 2009	Message Posted: May 10, 2013 7:13:32 PM Ignore RockCity Report Abuse Those few days after Kent State were among the darkest of my presidency. -- Richard Nixon
Edger Champion Author Pittsburgh Posts:40,211 Points:2,471,110 Joined:Apr 2005	Message Posted: May 10, 2013 2:17:49 PM Ignore Edger Report Abuse What did he know and when did he know it?
Edger Champion Author Pittsburgh Posts:40,211 Points:2,471,110 Joined:Apr 2005	Message Posted: May 10, 2013 2:05:17 PM Ignore Edger Report Abuse "What difference does it make now?" - Sir Edmund Hillary's namesake
greentre All-Star Author Pensacola Posts:781 Points:275,205 Joined:Oct 2011	Message Posted: May 9, 2013 4:24:11 PM Ignore greentre Report Abuse I'm ok, you're so-so. -Me-
rjhenn Champion Author Des Moines Posts:22,438 Points:2,228,950 Joined:Aug 2005	Message Posted: May 9, 2013 11:54:43 AM Ignore rjhenn Report Abuse "If Abu Nidal is a terrorist, then so is George Washington . -- Muammar Qaddafi" Funny, I don't recall Washington ordering terrorist attacks on innocent civilians.
RockCity Champion Author Denver Posts:7,910 Points:1,427,110 Joined:Mar 2009	Message Posted: May 9, 2013 4:59:07 AM Ignore RockCity Report Abuse America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. -- Claire Wolfe
RockCity Champion Author Denver Posts:7,910 Points:1,427,110 Joined:Mar 2009	Message Posted: May 8, 2013 7:21:01 AM Ignore RockCity Report Abuse If Abu Nidal is a terrorist, then so is George Washington . -- Muammar Qaddafi
RockCity Champion Author Denver Posts:7,910 Points:1,427,110 Joined:Mar 2009	Message Posted: May 7, 2013 4:05:59 AM Ignore RockCity Report Abuse A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate. -- Eric Idle
RockCity Champion Author Denver Posts:7,910 Points:1,427,110 Joined:Mar 2009	Message Posted: May 6, 2013 5:17:06 AM Ignore RockCity Report Abuse If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. -- Alexis de Tocquevill
RockCity Champion Author Denver Posts:7,910 Points:1,427,110 Joined:Mar 2009	Message Posted: May 5, 2013 4:48:55 AM Ignore RockCity Report Abuse Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. -- Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.
RockCity Champion Author Denver Posts:7,910 Points:1,427,110 Joined:Mar 2009	Message Posted: May 4, 2013 3:17:31 AM Ignore RockCity Report Abuse Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. -- Cicero
RockCity Champion Author Denver Posts:7,910 Points:1,427,110 Joined:Mar 2009	Message Posted: May 3, 2013 3:41:06 AM Ignore RockCity Report Abuse The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. -- Cicero
jdhelm Champion Author Iowa Posts:11,856 Points:1,198,890 Joined:Dec 2009	Message Posted: May 2, 2013 9:11:24 AM Ignore jdhelm Report Abuse and there appears to always be truth in casual remarks (supposedly meant to be a joke), especially when said by the horse's mouth itself, as in: "I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be." - bhoThis is probably one time when he hasn't lied.
RockCity Champion Author Denver Posts:7,910 Points:1,427,110 Joined:Mar 2009	Message Posted: May 2, 2013 3:04:42 AM Ignore RockCity Report Abuse Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason -- Sir John Harrington
ncclyde Champion Author Charlotte Posts:15,228 Points:2,403,415 Joined:Dec 2005	Message Posted: May 1, 2013 7:22:01 AM Ignore ncclyde Report Abuse "When the law disallows both the means and moral authority to defend one's self and property, crime and violence fill the void between common sense and the hoped for utopia." - JD Filkins
RockCity Champion Author Denver Posts:7,910 Points:1,427,110 Joined:Mar 2009	Message Posted: May 1, 2013 2:24:55 AM Ignore RockCity Report Abuse All I know is that I am not a Marxist -- Karl Marx
therder All-Star Author Lexington Posts:589 Points:1,595,860 Joined:Feb 2007	Message Posted: Apr 30, 2013 11:13:25 AM Ignore therder Report Abuse "We can't all be right but it's allright" Waylon Jennings
RockCity Champion Author Denver Posts:7,910 Points:1,427,110 Joined:Mar 2009	Message Posted: Apr 30, 2013 3:26:43 AM Ignore RockCity Report Abuse Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism it's just the opposite. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
RockCity Champion Author Denver Posts:7,910 Points:1,427,110 Joined:Mar 2009	Message Posted: Apr 29, 2013 6:50:44 AM Ignore RockCity Report Abuse Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. -- H.L. Mencken
rjhenn Champion Author Des Moines Posts:22,438 Points:2,228,950 Joined:Aug 2005	Message Posted: Apr 29, 2013 1:37:43 AM Ignore rjhenn Report Abuse MahopacJack - "Thomas Sowell's quote , >>In politics, few talents are as richly rewarded as the ability to convince parasites that they are victims. .....<< *************** Very insightful." And it seems to apply to both ends of the income and wealth scale.
RockCity Champion Author Denver Posts:7,910 Points:1,427,110 Joined:Mar 2009	Message Posted: Apr 28, 2013 10:17:43 AM Ignore RockCity Report Abuse All Governments, including the worst on earth and the most tyrannical on earth, are free Governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them. -- Lysander Spooner
MahopacJack Champion Author New York Posts:8,011 Points:1,582,995 Joined:Feb 2008	Message Posted: Apr 27, 2013 8:16:35 PM Ignore MahopacJack Report Abuse Thomas Sowell's quote , >>In politics, few talents are as richly rewarded as the ability to convince parasites that they are victims. .....<< *************** Very insightful.
Cirdan Champion Author Nevada Posts:2,020 Points:124,585 Joined:May 2006	Message Posted: Apr 27, 2013 10:47:31 AM Ignore Cirdan Report Abuse In politics, few talents are as richly rewarded as the ability to convince parasites that they are victims. Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensations for injustices — leading to worsening behavior by the recipients. - Thomas Sowell
RockCity Champion Author Denver Posts:7,910 Points:1,427,110 Joined:Mar 2009	Message Posted: Apr 27, 2013 9:42:41 AM Ignore RockCity Report Abuse The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. -- Barry M. Goldwater
ncclyde Champion Author Charlotte Posts:15,228 Points:2,403,415 Joined:Dec 2005	Message Posted: Apr 26, 2013 5:29:44 AM Ignore ncclyde Report Abuse "A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years." - Lysander Spooner
RockCity Champion Author Denver Posts:7,910 Points:1,427,110 Joined:Mar 2009	Message Posted: Apr 26, 2013 2:54:59 AM Ignore RockCity Report Abuse When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President -- I'm beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow