And On The Other Hand

And On The Other Hand

Views on Politicians

“In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant”-Charles De Gaulle “A politician is a person with whose politics you don’t agree;

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Barry J. Klazura

June 20, 2021

“In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant”-Charles De Gaulle

“A politician is a person with whose politics you don’t agree; if you agree with him, he is a statesman”-David Lloyd George

“The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he”-Karl Kraus

“Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?”-Art Buchwald

“I once said cynically of a politician, ‘He’ll double cross tht bridge when he comes to it”-Oscar Levant

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Written by Barry J. Klazura

Writer, historian, and financial advisor. I studied Political Science at Loyola University Chicago and have spent a lifetime reading history. I write because the mainstream will not ask the hard questions. 

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