Saturday Fun (星期六笑話)

It's rare nowadays to have a day in Hong Kong without being flooded by what passes from the mouths of our politicians and our inept political "leaders". But we're probably not alone. Perhaps the only difference between us and people elsewhere is that they can still have the heart to joke about it. Well, so can we, about their politicians and their politics! Here are some quotable quotes:

1. The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.' --Will Rogers


2. 'In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.' --Thomas Pickering


3. I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. -- Nancy Reagan

4.  When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer
     'Present' or 'Not guilty.' -- Theodore Roosevelt (Could have been any number of
      presidents since)

5. Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is
     some evidence that they can't read them either. -- Gore Vidal

6. 'On my arrival in the United States I was struck by the degree of ability among the
     governed and the lack of it among the governing.' --Alexis de Toqueville

7. 'Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing
      it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy'.   -- Ernest Benn

8.  'There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for
       you'.  --Will Rogers

9. 'Politicians make strange bedfellows, but they all share the same bunk'.-- Edgar A.  Shoaff

10.  'You can fool all of the people all of the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.'  --Joseph Levine

11.  'Politicians are the same all over the world. They promise to build bridges, even where there are no rivers'. -- Nikita Kruschchev

12. 'Artificial hearts are nothing new.  Politicians have had them for years.'-- Mack McGinnis

13. Don't vote. You'll only encourage them.--Anonymous

14. 'Although he is regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in politics.'--George Mitchell.

15.  A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. --Mark Twain

16. When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. --PJ O'Rourke

17. Crime does not pay ... politics as well.  -- Alfred E. Newman 

With regard to the last one, I'd say our legislators get paid much better than they deserve! Whether or not that's so, go out and have some fun in our beautiful countryside. It's sunny out there and the temperature will not rise above 25 degrees Celsius, or so I'm told, fortunately not by our politicians !