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

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

“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

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

“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”
― 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

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

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

“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

“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

“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
― Edward R. Murrow

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

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

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

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

“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

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

“It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.”
― 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

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

“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