In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the Liberals’ inept response when the SNC-Lavalin scandal erupted makes you wonder what politicians are good at, since they seem to be almost as bad at politics as at governing.
“One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.”
Paul Bourget “(1852-1935) French novelist and critic” quoted as “Thought du Jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail August 6, 2009
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say Justin Trudeau and a number of those around him must resign unless they can prove that Jody Raybould-Wilson is either lying or deluded… which seems highly unlikely.
“The future is hidden even from the men who make it.”
Anatole France, quoted on https://www.hound-dog-media.com/2014/01/gamblers-fools-and-egotists-59-still_31.html
"The great inlet by which a color for oppression has entered the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another, and by claiming to use what means he thinks proper in order to bring him to a sense of it. It is the ordinary and trite sophism of oppression."
Edmund Burke, quoted by Richard John Neuhaus in First Things February 2003 (crediting it to a letter from Nino Langiulli of Lynbrook, New York and calling it "an observation of the ever–quotable Edmund Burke with which I was not familiar").