Funny political quotes

[War on Want]

In 1975, the Governor-General dissolved Parliament and dismissed the Prime Minister after the Opposition-controlled Senate refused to pass Supply (for background, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis or watch the YouTube link below).

The Governor-General's Private Secretary stepped forward before the media to read the proclamation, ending it (of course) with "God save the Queen."

Whitlam (the PM being dismissed) stepped forward to the microphone and said:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3wI1h5BAao&feature=related - the quote comes at about the three minute mark.

I don't really know much about Australian politics but Whitlam is definitley my favorite PM.

[Sewer]

"I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside." --Mo Udall

"What's the difference between a pigeon and an Iowa farmer? A pigeon can still make a deposit on a tractor." --Mo Udall while criticizing the economy on the campaign trail in 1976

"When the Democratic Party forms a firing squad, we form a circle." --Mo Udall

[Alexander Hamilton]

"I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside." --Mo Udall

"What's the difference between a pigeon and an Iowa farmer? A pigeon can still make a deposit on a tractor." --Mo Udall while criticizing the economy on the campaign trail in 1976

"When the Democratic Party forms a firing squad, we form a circle." --Mo Udall

OH SHIIT!

[JSojourner]

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside pissing in.

-LBJ

(always liked that one)

[Mechaman]

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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside pissing in.

-LBJ

(always liked that one)

What is it with LBJ and piss?!

[CARLHAYDEN]

One of my favorites (which as memory serves me can be found in William F. Buckley's book, The Unmaking of a Mayor) is Mario Procaccino's introductions of the 1965 Democrat party nominee for Mayor, of New York City, Abe Beame, to an audience, saying: "He grows on you like cancer."

[DownWithTheLeft]

JC messed with the DWTL bull and is now getting the DWTL horns.

No JC messed with giving conservatives a bad name, usually I get pissed when people go after this personally but this idiot is just making conservatives look dumb

shut up. your just mad over the fact i'm biased agianst the hellhole known as NJ.

Your stupidity over hating states is a huge reason why you are a tard

[JSojourner]

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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside pissing in.

-LBJ

(always liked that one)

What is it with LBJ and piss?!

He was an earthy, irascible Texan.  And biographers say he so hated to waste time, that he made aides brief him while he was in the can, moving his bowels.  Like him or not, he was the last truly "colorful character" we have had in the White House.

[Mechaman]

EPIC BUMP.

"If Chuck Robb was in a hotel room with Miss Virginia, and he was wearing a robe, and he didn't have sex with her, he's too stupid to be President."
Unknown original source regarding Chuck Robb's scandal.

[Lambsbread]

"I honestly believe I have a chance at becoming President" - John McCain

[Insula Dei]

An apocryphal anecdote about Belgium's best ever PM, Achiel Van Acker, who was the son of poor basket weavers and who learned french (and all other things academic) relatively late in life, yet went on to become Prime minister and a professor honoris causa in Lille. Alledgedly he met Golda Meir at the airport for a state visit and was greeted with a 'Shalom'. His reply was 'Shale femme'. (Only funny if you know some french, I'm afaid)

And of course a classic by Paul Vandenboeynants, an ex-Prime Minister who was kidnappedand held for ransom by gangsters somewhere in the 1980s and who always went acompanied by the whiff of scandal. 'Trop is te veel en te veel is trop.' ('Trop' and 'te veel' being the French and Flemish expressions for 'too much')

[feeblepizza]

"I became inebriated with hitting the big one"
-George W. Bush on his days in the oil business

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I love this thread!

Just felt I had to yell it. I love reading these quotes.

[feeblepizza]

"Who cares what you think?"
-George W. Bush in 2001, responding to a reporter who voiced dissatisfaction with the Bush administration