Afgelopen week mochten we getuige zijn van de zoveelste politieke comedie.
Hier paar tijdloze quotes over politiek, politici en de overheid: 

• Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
  H. L. Mencken
• Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
  Mark Twain
• The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
  Maureen Murphy
• Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
  Charles De Gaulle
• Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
  Ronald Reagan
• Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
  Paul Valery
• Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
  Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
• The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
  Henry Cate VII
• The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.
  Larry Hardiman [ noot JP: 'tick' is Amerikaans voor teek, een bloedzuiger]
• It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
  Voltaire
• 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
• Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
  Henry Kissinger