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.”
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
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
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