Spurious George

While only a few months into his
presidency, history has already seen
fit to render an opinion:

On Spurious George - On Dick Cheney - On the Election

Come the millenium, month 12, in the home of greatest power, the village idiot will come forth to be acclaimed the leader.
- Nostradamus (1555)

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to
realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
- Ronald Reagan

Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this
country choose a second rate president.
- Richard M. Nixon

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
- Napoleon

In political discussion heat is in inverse proportion to knowledge.
- J.G.C. Minchin

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've
seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.
- George Wallace

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey
cage.
- H. L. Mencken

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
- William G. McAdoo

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.
- Diana Black

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm
beginning to believe it.
- Clarence Darrow

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
- Samuel Johnson

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little
longer.
- Henry Kissinger

When the president does it, that's means it is not illegal.
- Richard Nixon

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
- Henry Brooks Adams

"His ignorance is encyclopedic"
- Abba Eban (1915-)

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former. "
- Albert Einstein

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to
get its pants on. "
- Sir Winston Churchill

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
- Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)

"It is better to be quotable than to be honest. "
- Tom Stoppard

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
- Plato

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
- Plato

Politics: "The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
- Ambrose Bierce

Time was, that when th brains were out, the man would die.
- T. H. Huxley (from Macbeth?)

George Bush is anti-semantic
- Garison Keillor

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates
themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
- Jimmy Breslin

"Not all that is counted counts and not all that counts can be counted"
--A. Einstein

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
- Clive James

"How can I lose to such an idiot?"
- A shout from chessmaster Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935)

"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've
never tried before. "
- Mae West

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all
the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
- H. L. Mencken

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
- Napoleon