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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: ManyMoose who wrote (183873)10/24/2006 2:13:46 PM
From: KLP  Read Replies (1) of 794015
 
I'm sure Michelle could use some of these quotes these days... Of course, I loved Reagan, would love to see a Republican Churchill, and think the Ross Perot quote is spot on...

"If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes."
...-Ross Perot

"If Hitler were to invade Hell, I should at least stand in the Commons and say a few words on behalf of the Devil."
...-Sir Winston Churchill

"Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them."
...-Lily Tomlin

"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
...-John Kenneth Galbraith

"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
...-Ronald Reagan

"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
...-Ronald Reagan

"I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting."
...-Ronald Reagan

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help'."
...-Ronald Reagan

"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes."
...-Ronald Reagan (said during a radio microphone test, 1984)

"All the constitution guarantees is the pursuit of happiness. You have to catch up with it by yourself."
...-Benjamin Franklin

"Christopher Columbus was responsible for the thinking of modern government. He didn't know where he was when he got there and he did it all on borrowed money."
...-Oriette Sinclair
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