Please know that I am quite aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. – Amelia Earheart
You only live once – do it right and once is enough.
A liberal government is like a man who is happily married and the citizen is like the woman who isn’t.
Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction. – Cowboy Proverb
Bad government results from too much government. – THOMAS JEFFERSON
Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everyone stands around reloading. – Thomas Jefferson
As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions. – Stephen Harper
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. – Ronald Reagan
When the Liberals said they were going to create a million new jobs, I didn’t think they were all going to be tax collectors.
If you can’t convince them, confuse them. – Harry Truman
If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away. – Stephen Harper
The buck stops here.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. – Christy Lynn
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. – John F. Kennedy
For those to whom much is given, much is required.
It is not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
There is no substitute for victory. – Douglas Macarthur
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. – Golda Meir
Problems are opportunities in work clothes. – Henry Kaiser
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein
If you owe the bank $10,000 you have a problem. If you owe the bank $10,000,000 they have a problem.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. – Ronald Reagan
The problem with a government-run trust fund is that there is too much government and too little trust in it.
How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin. – Ronald Reagan
Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won’t.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried – Winston Churchill
A little girl asked her father, “Daddy? Do all Fairy Tales begin with ‘Once Upon A Time’?” He replied, “No, there is a whole series of Fairy Tales that begin with ‘If elected I promise’.”
Here’s my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose. – Ronald Reagan
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. – Voltaire (1694 – 1778)
The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so. – Ronald Reagan
If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under. – Ronald Reagan
My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference. I, for one, believe the piano player job to be much more honorable than current politicians. – President Harry Truman
No government’s legacy is so rich as honest. – William Shakespeare
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. – Abraham Lincoln
I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody. – Benjamin Franklin
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth! – Ronald Reagan
The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master. – John D. Rockefeller
Learn from the mistakes of others – you won’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
He’s opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer him the position. – Mark Twain
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a politician.
Never, never, never, never give up. – Winston Churchill
Liberals can’t get elected unless things get worse and things won’t get worse unless they are elected. – Jean Kirkpatrick
There are two distinct classes of people: those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes. – Thomas Paine
The war on privilege by the left will never end. Its next great campaign will be against the privileges of the underprivileged.
The genius of the liberals is that is has a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. – Gore Vidal
If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s intolerance.
Always and never are two words that you should always remember never to use.
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation
Never apologize. It’s a sign of weakness. – John WayneAssault is a behavior, not a device.The liberals? They are a few clowns short of a circus.If brains were taxed, left-wing politicians would get a rebate.The world is run by those who show up and follow up.
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be: “meetings.” – Dave Barry
A Canadian taxpayer is someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination, or go to the meetings.
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. – Robert Byrne
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. – George Burns
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. – Plato (427 – 347 B.C.)
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. – Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. – Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826)
We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win.
A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation.
Any person who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brains… – Winston Churchill
NDP’s are not necessarily stupid but most stupid people are NDP.
In politics, an organized minority is a political majority… – Jesse Jackson
Politics would be a good business if it weren’t for the people… – Richard M. Nixon
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men… – Plato
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river… – Nikita Kruschev
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is… – M.K. Gandhi
It’s kinda fun to do the impossible…. – Walt Disney
If you’re going through hell, keep going… – Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly… – John F. Kennedy
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut-up… – Tom Lehrer
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity…. – Horace Man
Be the change you want to see in the world… – Mahatma Gandhi
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power…. – Abraham Lincoln
People may not remember what you said, or what you did, but they’ll always remember how you made them feel.
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost. When health is lost, something is lost. When character is lost, all is lost. – Billy Graham
Politics is the only business where doing nothing other than making the other guy look bad is an acceptable outcome. – Gov. Mark Warner
I won’t be wronged. I won’t be insulted. I won’t be laid a hand on. – John Wayne
He seemed to laugh at things because he saw something much greater. His liberal opponent laughed as if he wanted to let nothing remain great.
There is a time for calm and there is a time for fighting, and now is the time for fighting. – Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak, 2008
Propaganda of socialism, communism and dictatorships. We ask that every man and woman put the iron heel of ruthlessness against a thing of that kind. – Prime Minister R.B. Bennett (1930 – 1935)
The liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they are never seen twice in the same place. – John G. Diefenbaker
Trudeau’s contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it. – Brian Mulroney
If all of the parties are against deficits, why do we have deficits?
Politically, right is right and left is wrong.
Members of Parliament, the Senate, the Prime Minister and the Supreme Court, totaling a few hundred people only out of more than 30 million Canadians, are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country. Those few hundred spend most of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. – B.L. Lindsay
Politicians create problems and then campaign against them.
Yes, in Canada the rich will always be a minority. (When asked if he believed in minority rights.) – John A. MacDonald
Get bitter or get busy
Conservatives tend to believe there is a close and necessary connection between prosperity and freedom – that economic freedom is an essential part of human freedom. – Edwin Feulner
There’s a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not. – Rush Limbaugh
If the phone doesn’t ring it’s me.
Don’t jump on a man unless he’s down.
Never believe anything a left-wing government says until it has been officially denied.
The average person thinks he isn’t.
An ambassador is an honest person sent abroad to lie for their country.
If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
When people are pure, laws are useless, when people are corrupt, laws are broken.
It is the spending stupid!
Ninety per cent of the politicians give the other ten per cent a bad reputation. – Henry Kissinger
Liberal, NDP leadership is to have control over the people. That’s assault, not leadership.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. – Peter Drucker
Any politician who presents the electorate with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
To prophesy is extremely difficult – especially about the future. – Chinese Proverb
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. – William Shakespeare
The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. – John Adams
You gotta create what you want to be part of.
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. – Will Rogers