NationStates Jolt Archive

Many people will spend the summer occupied with fishing and politics. In fishing you use a worm, and in politics a worm uses you.
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If a person is well-informed on world issues, he can run for political office. And if the voters are not well-informed, he can get elected.
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The Japanese have bought everything in America except the politicians. The Japanese want quality products.
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A politician's idea of a mistake in judgement is accepting a small bribe when he should have done the ethical thing--hold out for a big one.
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Congress has more good actors than the World Wrestling Federation.
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(No offence intended, but I found these funny...) :D

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Congress has more good actors than the World Wrestling Federation.
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This is hard?

This is hard?

no it's meant to be a joke.

Boing

I have forgotten who said this one:

"Politics is made up of two words. Poly, meaning many and tics, small blood sucking insects."

::EDIT:: Quick google search reveals it was Gore Vidal, with the proper version being "'Politics' is made up of two words, 'poli,' which is Greek for 'many', and 'tics', which are blood-sucking insects."

heh, thats pretty good. :D

a politician is an arse upon
which everyone has sat except a man.

e.e. cummings

Heres one:

"Whats the difference between a coke machine and politicians? They both steal your money"

Good, Good.

*Uses executive branch on thread*

*WHACK!*

"America only has one truly native criminal class: Congress."
~Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens

"If 'con' is the opposite of 'pro', what's the opposite of 'progress'?"
(Forgot the source on that one.)

I see that congress is really hated...

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


Avoid all needle drugs. The only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
Abbie Hoffman

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose Bierce

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
-Douglas Adams

Government is the Entertainment Division of the military-industrial complex.
-Frank Zappa

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey-cage.
HL Mencken

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.
Kurt Vonnegut

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.
Orson Welles

Many people will spend the summer occupied with fishing and politics. In fishing you use a worm, and in politics a worm uses you.
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If a person is well-informed on world issues, he can run for political office. And if the voters are not well-informed, he can get elected.
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The Japanese have bought everything in America except the politicians. The Japanese want quality products.
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A politician's idea of a mistake in judgement is accepting a small bribe when he should have done the ethical thing--hold out for a big one.
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Congress has more good actors than the World Wrestling Federation.
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(No offence intended, but I found these funny...) :D
I've heard better...

If pro is the opposite of con, does that mean that progress is the opposite of Congress?

If pro is the opposite of con, does that mean that progress is the opposite of Congress?

no (said as sarcasticly as possible)