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An honest politician

  An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. - Simon Cameron Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to be President, but according to a famous Gallup poll of some years ago, some 73 percent do not want them to become politicians in the process. - John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage, 1956 Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. - Chester Bowles Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. - Frank Dane If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. - George Bernard Shaw Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. - George Burns A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. - Ogden Nash I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society. - Anna Quindlen It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome on...

10 Quotes

George Burns. Photo: Television Academy Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. - George Burns Nothing you can't spell will ever work. - Will Rogers The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. - Cicero Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. - Mark Twain The first duty of love is to listen. - Paul Tillich How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. - Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. - William Wordsworth The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me n...