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.”
I would have made a good Pope. - Richard M Nixon
Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley
Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers
There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli
I am not a politician, but a soldier. - Idi Amin
Under every stone lurks a politician. - Aristophanes
The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley
It ain't exactly the Pope diamond. - Archie Bunker
Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre
All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams
A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying
Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown
I'm not a politician. I've only got one face. - Brendan Behan
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. - Edward Langley
There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant
Sudafed: Brought litigation against a government official - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Government cannot and must not replace private initiative. - Kim Campbell
I'm Jewish, so I don't know much about Easter eggs. - Simon Kinberg
Dilemma: A politician trying to save both his faces at once - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx
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
World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. - Charles de Gaulle
On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer. - Douglas Horton
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. - Edward Abbey
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. - Tex Guinan
A politician is a man who approaches every problem with an open mouth. - Adlai Stevenson
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. - William E. Simon
Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness. - Archie Bunker
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be. - Evelyn Waugh
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke
For I remember it is Easter morn, and life and love and peace are all new born. - Alice F Palmer
A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson
A good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. - H L Mencken
The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. - Earl Wilson
I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley
I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale. - Robert H. Schuller
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. - Doug Larson
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. - Nikita Khrushchev
What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. - Nikita Khruschev
I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams
Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour
Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev
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
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Demagogue: A politician who can rock the boat and persuade everyone else that they're in a terrible storm - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
It is a win-win for the American people, an idea no conventional politician would have the guts to put forward. - Donald Trump
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
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet
Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it. - Donella Meadows
It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey
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
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
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
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
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire
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
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan
Judge: 1. A law student who marks his own examination papers; 2. A lawyer who once knew a politician; 3. A man in a trying position. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
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
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
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
The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it. - Edward I Kock
Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi
Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley
Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers
There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli
I am not a politician, but a soldier. - Idi Amin
Under every stone lurks a politician. - Aristophanes
The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley
It ain't exactly the Pope diamond. - Archie Bunker
Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre
All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams
A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying
Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown
I'm not a politician. I've only got one face. - Brendan Behan
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. - Edward Langley
There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant
Sudafed: Brought litigation against a government official - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Government cannot and must not replace private initiative. - Kim Campbell
I'm Jewish, so I don't know much about Easter eggs. - Simon Kinberg
Dilemma: A politician trying to save both his faces at once - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx
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
World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. - Charles de Gaulle
On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer. - Douglas Horton
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. - Edward Abbey
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. - Tex Guinan
A politician is a man who approaches every problem with an open mouth. - Adlai Stevenson
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. - William E. Simon
Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness. - Archie Bunker
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be. - Evelyn Waugh
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke
For I remember it is Easter morn, and life and love and peace are all new born. - Alice F Palmer
A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson
A good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. - H L Mencken
The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. - Earl Wilson
I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley
I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale. - Robert H. Schuller
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. - Doug Larson
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. - Nikita Khrushchev
What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. - Nikita Khruschev
I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams
Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour
Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev
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
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Demagogue: A politician who can rock the boat and persuade everyone else that they're in a terrible storm - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
It is a win-win for the American people, an idea no conventional politician would have the guts to put forward. - Donald Trump
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
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet
Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it. - Donella Meadows
It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey
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
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
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
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
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire
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
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan
Judge: 1. A law student who marks his own examination papers; 2. A lawyer who once knew a politician; 3. A man in a trying position. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
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
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
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
The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it. - Edward I Kock
Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi
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