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Listen Up — Yeah, You Under the Capitol Rotunda
“A politician is not as narrow-minded as he fancies himself to be.”
— Will Rogers
This is Why Federal Reserve Chairs Are Appointed and Not Elected
“In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.”
–– Winston Churchill, 1926 Read more »
Secretly, There’s Plenty of Lawmakers Who Feel The Same Way
“Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held a country back as much as committees.”
–Will Rogers Read more »
Would Anyone Listen? Would He Even Be Elected?
Asked recently what might break the current budget loggerheads in the Legislature, former Assembly Speaker and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown said:
“Two words – Ken Maddy.”
(The late former GOP Senate leader was a deft politician with a legendary penchant for successful deal-making. Stating the obvious, he was a devout and unapologetic pragmatist.) Read more »
An Easter Latin Lesson
Omne Vivum Ex Ovo
“Every Living Thing Comes from an Egg” Read more »
Today’s Latin Lesson Is Always Out There
Anguis in Herba
“An Unsuspected Danger.”
(Literally: “A Snake in the Grass.”) Read more »
A Timely — and Insightful — Quote from Oklahoma’s Favorite Son
“The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.”
— Will Rogers Read more »
Still a Very Desirable Wish — 64 Years Later…
“It would be great reform in politics if wisdom could be made to spread as easily as folly.”
–Winston Churchill, 1947 Read more »
Today’s Latin Lesson Is a Good Legislative Goal
Ne Plus Ultra
“The Highest Point Attainable or Attained.”
Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy, Page 400
“(Western Europe’s) superiority since the Renaissance is due partly to science and scientific technique, partly to political institutions slowly built up during the Middle Ages. There is no reason, in the nature of things, why this superiority should continue.
“In the present war, (World War II) great military strength has been shown by Russia, China and Japan. Read more »
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