Businesses have to abide to Truth in Advertising, why don't politicians?
Are they held to a lower standard?
We should have all of the politicians wear a collar that would shock them when they lie to the public.
They should also be held accountable for advertising that is used to sway public opinion on their behalf.
Where have all the honest politicians gone, well they've been dead for a long time.
Here are some of the voices of the past about Politics.
“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary
“In politics as in philosophy, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.”
― George Washington
“The Seven Social Sins are:
1. Wealth without work.
2. Pleasure without conscience.
3. Knowledge without character.
4. Commerce without morality.
5. Science without humanity.
6. Worship without sacrifice.
7. Politics without principle."
From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.
“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain
About political correctness
“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”
― William F. Buckley Jr.
“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
― John F. Kennedy
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
― Edward R. Murrow
“We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”
― Thomas Jefferson
“Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.”
― Frank Herbert
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
― Winston S. Churchill
“Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.”
― Henry Kissinger
“In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“Leadership is being the first to put others second. Wait, that’s not right. That’s politics."
"I trust politicians to do what’s right. For themselves. ”
― Jarod Kintz
“The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli
“The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.”
― Will Rogers
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