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There are some folks out there who might feel I'm a little too hard on politicians. There are also some folks out there who don't really give a rat's rearend.

For those in the first group I offer these observations by people much brighter than this writer:

"We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office" - Aesop

"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river." - Plato.

"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it." - Clarence Darrow.(Noted Attorney, Agnostic, ACLU leader, and surprisingly - a Democrat.)

"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other." - Oscar Ameringer, "the Mark Twain of American Socialism."

"I offered my opponents a deal: 'If they stop telling lies about me, I will stop telling the truth about them." - Adlai Stephenson, campaign speech, 1952 (Ike won)

"A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country." - Tex Guinan.

"I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle.

"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks." - Douglas Larson.

"I am reminded of a joke. What happens if a politician drowns in a river? That's pollution. What happens if all of them drown? - that's a solution." - (author unknown)

Quote from USA editorial on giving FDA more power to oversee compounding pharmacies - after explaining the reasons for doing so.

"All that makes sense, and on Friday a bipartisan group of senators proposed a measure to reach these goals.

BUT ANY NEW LAW FACES HURDLES, PARTICULARLY FROM HOUSE REPUBLICANS WHO ARE SO BENT ON BLAMING THE FDA THAT THEY OPPOSE PROVIDING THE CLARITY AND TOOLS TO ENSURE PUBLIC SAFETY."

 (The toll from the tainted injections made by the compounding pharmacy - New England Compounding Center was - more than 700 people in 20 states sickened and 53 dead - or 50 more than than the Boston Marathon bombings.)

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