Quotes Policital and . . .
"I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University"
William F. Buckley
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
H.L. Mencken
Politics: "The best of all indoor sports."
Cornelia Bryce Pinchot
"The most beautiful word in the American political lexicon is 'gridlock'."
George Will
"The Republicans are the opposition, the Senate is the enemy."
Tom Foley - D Former Speaker of the House
"The House is made for offense, the Senate is made for defense."
Mitch McConnell - R Senate Minority Leader
"People come to Washington to do good, but they stay to do well."
Author Unknown
Prince Richard:
[the sons - in the dungeon - think they hear Henry approach] He's here. He'll get no satisfaction out of me. He isn't going to see me beg.
Prince Geoffrey:
My you chivalric fool... as if the way one fell down mattered.
Prince Richard:
When the fall is all that's left, it matters a great deal.
The Lion in Winter 1968
Posted Sunday 12/23/07 1:12 PM