Unknown to most Canadians, as Pope John Paul II was dying, he sent a message to
the present Canadian Prime Minister (Paul Martin), and the past Prime Minister
(Jean Chretien), to come to his home in the Vatican.
When they arrived, they were ushered up to his bedroom. As they entered the
room, the clergyman held out his hands and motioned for them to sit on each side
of the bed. The Pope grasped their hands, sighed contentedly, smiled and stared
at the ceiling. For a time, no one said anything. Both Martin and Chretien were
touched and flattered that the old Pope would ask them to be with him during his
final moment.
They were also puzzled though because the Pope had never given any indication
that he particularly liked either one of them. Finally, Chretien asked, “Odder,
what for did you hask de two of huss to come ’ere?”
The old Pope mustered up some strength, then said weakly, “Jesus died between two
thieves, and that’s how I want to go as well.”
All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil
Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley
Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers
I am not a politician, but a soldier. - Idi Amin
In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama
Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre
From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. - Edward Langley
Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance. - Reba McEntire
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. - William Westmoreland
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken
A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenel
An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain
We have the best government in the world... that money can buy. - Mark Twain
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford
It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. - Edith Sitwell
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. - Simon Cameron
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. - Tex Guinan
I have great respect for the Pope. I like the Pope. I actually like him. - Donald Trump
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. - Will Rogers
Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness. - Archie Bunker
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith
To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government. - Mark Twain
The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. - Will Rogers
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. - Will Rogers
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw
The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. - Earl Wilson
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. - John F Kennedy
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. - Doug Larson
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. - Tom Robbins
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. - Nikita Khrushchev
I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. - Nikita Khruschev
People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician. - Eleanor Clift
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P.J. O'Rourke
Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches awaiting Easter. - Fran Lebowitz
Reporter: "How many people work at the Vatican?"
Pope John XXIII: "About half." - Pope John XXIII
Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton
Politics: Poli, a Latin word meaning "many"; and tics, meaning "bloodsucking creatures." - Robin Williams
Why does not the Pope build St. Peter's with his own money, rather than with the money of poor believers? - Martin Luther
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman
I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I would gladly eat a network executive or a politician. - Marty Feldman
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. - Thurgood Marshall
Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. - Henrik Ibsen
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. - Cal Thomas
One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. - Lyndon B. Johnson
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato
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
We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a little backwards? - Jay Leno
I am quite sure now that often in matters concerning religion and politics, a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkeys. - Mark Twain
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. - John W. Gardner
NEED now means wanting someone else's money. GREED means wanting to keep your own. COMPASSION is when a politician arranges the transfer. - Joseph Sobran
Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford
Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien
Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley
Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers
I am not a politician, but a soldier. - Idi Amin
In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama
Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre
From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. - Edward Langley
Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance. - Reba McEntire
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. - William Westmoreland
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken
A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenel
An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain
We have the best government in the world... that money can buy. - Mark Twain
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford
It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. - Edith Sitwell
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. - Simon Cameron
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. - Tex Guinan
I have great respect for the Pope. I like the Pope. I actually like him. - Donald Trump
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. - Will Rogers
Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness. - Archie Bunker
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith
To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government. - Mark Twain
The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. - Will Rogers
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. - Will Rogers
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw
The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. - Earl Wilson
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. - John F Kennedy
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. - Doug Larson
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. - Tom Robbins
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. - Nikita Khrushchev
I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. - Nikita Khruschev
People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician. - Eleanor Clift
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P.J. O'Rourke
Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches awaiting Easter. - Fran Lebowitz
Reporter: "How many people work at the Vatican?"
Pope John XXIII: "About half." - Pope John XXIII
Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton
Politics: Poli, a Latin word meaning "many"; and tics, meaning "bloodsucking creatures." - Robin Williams
Why does not the Pope build St. Peter's with his own money, rather than with the money of poor believers? - Martin Luther
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman
I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I would gladly eat a network executive or a politician. - Marty Feldman
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. - Thurgood Marshall
Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. - Henrik Ibsen
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. - Cal Thomas
One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. - Lyndon B. Johnson
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato
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
We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a little backwards? - Jay Leno
I am quite sure now that often in matters concerning religion and politics, a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkeys. - Mark Twain
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. - John W. Gardner
NEED now means wanting someone else's money. GREED means wanting to keep your own. COMPASSION is when a politician arranges the transfer. - Joseph Sobran
Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford
Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien
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