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  • #1
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
    Winston Churchill

  • #2
    Ann Richards
    “After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.”
    Ann Richards

  • #3
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #4
    George Burns
    “Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”
    George Burns

  • #5
    John F. Kennedy
    “The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”
    John F. Kennedy

  • #6
    John F. Kennedy
    “If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.”
    John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage

  • #7
    John F. Kennedy
    “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
    John F. Kennedy

  • #8
    Thomas Jefferson
    “We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #9
    Jon   Stewart
    “You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.”
    Jon Stewart

  • #10
    Gore Vidal
    “Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”
    Gore Vidal, Screening History

  • #11
    Edward R. Murrow
    “A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
    Edward R. Murrow

  • #12
    Plato
    “One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
    Plato

  • #13
    Winston S. Churchill
    “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #14
    Charles de Gaulle
    “How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?”
    Charles de Gaulle

  • #15
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    “I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.”
    Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • #16
    Ronald Reagan
    “Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.”
    Ronald Reagan

  • #17
    Garrison Keillor
    “The most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.”
    Garrison Keillor

  • #18
    Garrison Keillor
    “It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.”
    Garrison Keillor

  • #19
    Garrison Keillor
    “A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded gun on your coffee table- There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about.”
    Garrison Keillor

  • #20
    Garrison Keillor
    “You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.”
    Garrison Keillor, Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon
    tags: age

  • #21
    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    Garrison Keillor



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