I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the people you need to concentrate on.

Jesus, and we wonder why the Election turned out so weird. The Pollsters knew nothing, because the people they talked to lied to them. Nobody wants to talk to a fucking Pollster, anyway. They are Vermin. And they are getting paid to harass you with questions, but you're not getting a dime for it. You're not even getting on TV.

Capt. Renault: Oh no, Emil, please. A bottle of your best champagne, and put it on my bill.

"Andy Rooney" laughs at Liberal "jokesters".

The proposal that's come out of the Citizens' Assembly will, in my opinion, make it much harder for women to actually be represented....The reason that's the case is that because the Citizens' Assembly, while it's made up half of women, is not made up of people who have actual active experience in politics.

A labour movement that is without interest in political matters is a labour movement that is evading one of the most fundamental responsibilities.

Oh, promises, promises/This is where those promises, promises end/I don't pretend that what was wrong can be right/Every night I sleep now, no more lies

Don't go into politics: it will break your heart.

An unreliable ally is more dangerous than a clever opponent.

There's a simple rule in politics: either fire people's imaginations or those imaginations will turn around and fire at you. Unable to project a compelling image of himself, [Gordon] Campbell wound up wearing a negative image designed by his enemies. He became known as a suit in the nastier sense of the word; i.e., a greedy, sleazy, conniving, heartless corporate type.

I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can't wait to exchange.

Sometimes I want to reach out and smack him [Premier Gordon Campbell]. And sometimes I know he wants to smack me.

There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.

In British Columbia, which is a couple of years ahead of Ontario on this issue, a citizens' assembly has just recommended a whacko system called the "single transferable vote".

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

The northern character...has been fashioned in a spirit of cautious defensiveness as a means of preserving what might at any moment be snatched away.

STV [single transferable vote] is a system designed for political scientists and mathematicians, not voters....The local government elections were a disaster and an international embarrassment...

We'll have to think about what the lessons are from this. I guess bad things can happen to good people.

Carole James has two huge hurdles to overcome in her quest for election victory next May. The first is voter discontent with the record of the NDP governments of the 1990s; that's the easier one. The second is her gender; if she wins the 2005 election, James will be the only woman ever to be elected as B.C.'s premier.

Stop the endless bureaucratic restructuring that has drained resources from children and family services.

All politics is local.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Broadcaster Bill Good: "Now, your critics will say you achieved this [projected $865-million financial surplus] on the backs of the poor, the disabled, and seniors."

Surely there's a hidden story in the sudden departure of Christy Clark, despite her claims otherwise.

"I can say in general that the spread of organized crime just in the past two years has been like a cancer on the social and economic well-being of all British Columbians."

Horse sense is a good judgment which keeps horses from betting on people.

Democracy is working just fine, so leave B.C.'s electoral system be

You ain't disrespecting me like that/I'M GONNA GET MY GUN!

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

What could happen? That someone could drop a cigarette and start a fire? Sure, we knew all that. That's why we have firefighting budgets there.

Hell, I never vote for anybody; I always vote against.

An election is like a horse race, in that you can tell more about it the next day.

You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, "Can't anybody here play this game?"

Now does he feel

Steve Austin, astronaut, a man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him, we have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better. Stronger. Faster.

That most delicious of all privileges--spending other people's money.

I like Chopin and Bizet, and the voice of Doris Day,/Gershwin songs and old forgotten carols./But the music that excels is the sound of oil wells/As they slurp, slurp, slurp into the barrels.

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.

He who has not the privilege of being born a Liberal can never become one; and he who, not being born a Liberal, becomes one afterwards will fail in his Liberal principles and will become a traitor and a renegade.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

You must draw limits in your political commitment, otherwise you become uncivilized.

Greed is all right...Greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.

I became a member of the New Democratic Party because I read the history of this movement, I read the history of the struggles that we fought for, those that didn't have any rights. That was ethical....You know, I've been a member of this party since 1969....I'm committed to the party because of the principles that it has and those principles go way back.

Among the documents [John] Dean submitted in evidence June 27 were lists "several inches thick" of [Richard] Nixon's "political enemies." In one of the documents, written by Dean August 16, 1971, intended to accompany the undated master list of opponents, Dean suggested ways in which "we can use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies."

Women have cleaned up things since time began, and if women get into politics there will be a cleaning up of pigeon-holes and forgotten corners in which the dust of years have fallen.

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.