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February 01, 2005
Hunter S. Thompson
"[Politics] is an evil trade on most days, and nobody smart will defend it… except maybe Ronald Reagan, who seems dumber than three mules."
"There is no need for the President of the United States to be smart. He can be hovering on the grim cusp of brain death and still be the most powerful man in the world."
"Political gibberish is not a purely American art form, like jazz and safety blitz. But in only 200 years we have raised it to a new level of eloquence beyond anything since the time of the Caesars or even Genghis Khan."
"Why has every Republican politician since Abraham Lincoln been so crooked that they need a brace of Secret Service men to help them screw their pants on every morning?"
[On Politics] "It's the meanest game in any town"
[On Politicians] "unemployed lawyers, pimps and stockbrokers"
"Politics has its own language, which is often so complex that it borders on being a code."
"Just because a person can subject himself to the degradations of a lifetime in politics and finally end up in the White House is certainly no reason to respect him"
"All career politicians should be put on The Rack – in the name of either poetic or real justice, and probably for The Greater Good."
"any politician who insists on telling the truth: he is mocked, vilified, ignored and abandoned as a hopeless loser by even his good old buddies."
"Skilled professional liars are as much in demand in politics as they are in the advertising business."
Posted by pauldavies on February 01, 2005
