MA one liners, sound bytes, and catch phrases

[Dominato]

Not short, but when I read this I thought, bang on!

“Out of the muck of their [the mob] swinishness the typical American law-maker emerges. He is a man who has lied and dissembled, and a man who has crawled. He knows the taste of boot-polish… his public life is an endless series of evasions and false pretences. He is willing to embrace any issue, however idiotic, that will get him votes, and he is willing to sacrifice any principle, however sound, that will lose them for him.”
- H.L. Mencken

[NoDeity]

Man, I love Mencken.

[NoDeity]

“You know, there's two schools in economics on this. One is that there are some good taxes and the other is that no taxes are good taxes. I'm in the latter category. I don't believe that any taxes are good taxes.”
- Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, in an interview with the Globe and Mail following the G8 summit in July of 2009.

Unfortunately, I don't believe that he means it.

[Francois Tremblay]

If no taxes are good taxes, then they must be great taxes.

[Nokes]

“You know, there's two schools in economics on this. One is that there are some good taxes and the other is that no taxes are good taxes. I'm in the latter category. I don't believe that any taxes are good taxes.”
- Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, in an interview with the Globe and Mail following the G8 summit in July of 2009.

Unfortunately, I don't believe that he means it.

lol, that's hilarious.

[NoDeity]

Yeah, especially if sad and hypocritical = hilarious.

No, no, you're right. It's pretty funny when regarded from the appropriate perspective.

[Nokes]

I guess it's sad for him; that he cannot live his values, if they are indeed his. I mostly took it as typical rhetoric from a politician though.

[Tmaq]

"Who will pop the government bubble?"

"Can I shrug now?"

-Tom