"If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes." ...-Ross Perot "I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting." ...-Ronald Reagan "My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes." ...-Ronald Reagan (said during a radio microphone test, 1984) "All the constitution guarantees is the pursuit of happiness. You have to catch up with it by yourself." ...-Benjamin Franklin "For most Americans, Canada is sort of like a case of latent arthritis. We really don't think about it, unless it acts up." ...-Pat Buchanan "I think Congress should take the IRS, handcuff them to a chain-link fence, and flog them with their own damn tax code." ...-Jim [Jammes A.] Traficant "In American politics, that the public should have the final say goes without saying. In Canada, every expedient is invoked to prevent this from happening." ...-Ted Byfield "If anything characterizes the prevailing Ottawa attitude on government, it is dread, doubt, suspicion, contempt, loathing and fear of the Canadian people." ...-Ted Byfield "[Albertans] can choose between getting screwed and getting out." ...-Link Byfield "The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them, and they are never seen twice in the same place." -John Diefenbaker "Someone has given me a copy of the Prime Minister's speech. I don't know why they bothered. There's nothing in it." -Then-Opposition Leader John Diefenbaker "Any politician who thinks you can stimulate a $700 billion GNP economy with some sewer projects or $2 or 3 billion in public works, he will believe you can run a 747 with a flashlight battery." -Preston Manning "I've inherited an unbelievable bag of shit!" -John Turner, upon taking over for Trudeau http://uwstudentfpweb.uwyo.edu/J/JBURTON/AVFF/blog_quotes.html "Her leadership? I saw what she [Balinda Stronarch] turned Canadian TIre into, I saw a car on bricks and that was beside the tire section." -- Black Jester, aka Gölök Z. L. F. Buday. "Delusion has been defined by some as a strongly held belief not held in popular thought, so essentially we have pollsters and pop-culture marketeers deciding what is delusional and what is clear thinking, not [even] psychiatrists." -- Black Jester, aka Gölök Z. L. F. Buday. Arthur Schopenhauer : */All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident./*