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. Easter is never deserved. - Jan Karon A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli It ain't exactly the Pope diamond. - Archie Bunker In politics the middle way is none at all. - John Adams Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama A politician... one that would circumvent God. - William Shakespeare Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. - Molly Ivins Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. - Edward Langley There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant 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 Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. - Ted Koppei Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. - Clarence W Hall Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday. - Fulton J Sheen Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - Bertrand Russell If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be. - Evelyn Waugh Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. - Theodore White The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies. - Kate McGahan American Politics: A form of socialism for the rich, including the politicians. - Gregory Nunn There are no crooked politicians in America. They've legalized their thievery. - Frank Dane The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. - Earl Wilson The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation. - Paul Harvey Everyone wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. - Werner Finck I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale. - Robert H. Schuller I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. - Woody Allen Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain 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 People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician. - Eleanor Clift So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony. But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. - Thomas Paine Reporter: "How many people work at the Vatican?" Pope John XXIII: "About half." - Pope John XXIII I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans. - Kin Hubbard Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. - Donald Trump Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. - John P Barlow Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason. - Jose Maria de Eca de Queiroz I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin 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 What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet The Easter egg symbolizes our ability to break out of the hardened, protective shell we've surrounded ourselves with. - Siobhan Shaw Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere 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 I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. - Thomas Jefferson When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot. - Sergey Galitsky The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal. - Malcolm Muggeridge Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer It goes back to Christianity's affiliation with Judaism as Passover. Easter is as important to Christians as Passover is to the Jews. - Glenn Duffy Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle 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 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 see also Easter & Government Sections After Easter Bunny Blonde’s Meaning of Easter Broken Egg Bunny Calendar Chocolate Easter Bunnies Chocolate Easter Eggs Chocolate Math Colour Car Did You Say Happy Easter? Easter Bunny’s Hare Spray Easter Bunny’s Rude Awakening Easter Bunny Wisdom Easter Canceled Easter Car Easter Cats Easter Egg Drop-outs Easter Elephant Eggs Easter Identity Theft Easter Sudoku Puzzle Easter Yolks Egg Couch Egg Separator Egg Walk Eggs with Eyes Eggsellent Close Shave Eggsellent Friends Firm Egg Forgotten Easter Eggs Golfer’s Breakfast Happy Easter, Big Guy Happy Keester Hare Five Hoppy Easter How Easter Eggs Are Made How Many Eggs? Identity Theft Jerusalem Obituary, 33 A.D. Leaving A Good Impression Missed Palm Sunday Pine Trees Know When It’s Easter Purrrfect Disguise Rabbit or Duck? Stuffed Bunny Taking No Chance with the Mother-In-Law Texas Easter Bunny The Rules of Chocolate The Crucifixion The Resurrection What Happened? What’s In Easter? |
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