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Beyond Red and Blue

When on vacation, I leave you with some of my favorite quotes. These seem particularly meaningful in the current political climate.

“Just because you don’t take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.” Pericles

“Politics is the art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.” Oscar Ameringer

“People readily believe what they want to believe.” Julius Caesar

“A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on.” Mark Twain

“Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.” Anonymous

“Many argue, not many converse.” Louisa May Alcott

“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.” Mao Tse-Tung

“A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year and to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn’t happen.” Winston Churchill

“It’s useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk or running for office.” Shirley MacLaine

“Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.” Charles Krauthammer

“War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.” John F. Kennedy

“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” Muhammad Ali

”The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." Albert Einstein

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” Winston Churchill

“The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.” Adlai E. Stevenson

“In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.” Eric Hoffer

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom. Plato

Copyright 2008:  Linda Sapadin, Ph.D.  is a psychologist in private practice who specializes in helping individuals, families and couples overcome self-defeating patterns of behavior.

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