Three contractors bid on the White House fence. One is from Chicago, another from Kentucky, and the third is from New Orleans.
Four boxes keep us free: the soap box, the ballot box,
the jury box, and the cartridge box. The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley There will be no whitewash at the White House. - Richard M Nixon Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. - Will Rogers The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate, VII Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski Well washed and combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas. - Francis Galton Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. - Will Rogers Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. - Laurence J Peter Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House. - Robin Williams In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton Bob War: (Southern) A sharp, twisted cable. Usage: 'Boy, stay away from that bob war fence.' - Daffynitions joe-ks.com The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get it. - Arthur Brisbane If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. - Napoleon Bonaparte I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. - Thomas Jefferson Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx 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 Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro It was revealed in a government survey published today that the Prime Minister is doing the work of two men, Laurel and Hardy. - Ronnie Corbett We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner My girlfriend wants me to stain the new wooden fence in her backyard. So I'm going to eat spaghetti over it for a few weeks. - Rick Lantern The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin Finance functions lose the potential to steer their organizations to success when they defer performance management to other functions. - Jack Alexander 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 Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. - Paul Harvey In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. - Malcolm Muggeridge Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov see also Government, Politics & Work Sections Contractor Bids (pre 2001) |
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