Herman by Jim Unger for March 17, 2017

A true enough, apolitical statement. Let it be.

’Struth!

So True!

Some of us real old people figured this out years ago. Anyone who wants the job should be barred from running. But how would that work?

Truer words have never been spoken!

I so agree.

Mark Twain may have started the meme. I’ll have to do some research.

Whoever said it, I agree whole heartedly.

Sounds like a truth to me.

Which is one of the bad results of constantly vilifying politicians as a class.

I agree with all of the above.

As either Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett said: anyone who wants power should not be allowed to have it.

LOL. Ah yes, those people who are experts in absolutely EVERYTHING and they sit at their computers and criticize everything that politicians do? They seem to know the right way to do everything but complain how they can’t afford anything because they are on a fixed budget and live month-to-month. Why don’t they put all that expertise into doing some good in the world or at least make some money?

Every denizen of Foggy Bottom – from Penn. Ave to Capitol Hill – should have a framed copy of this, hanging in their offices !!

control freaks are usually the ones that want to run

@David Rickard – “Nearly any man can stand adversity. If you really want to test a man’s character, give him power.” – Abraham Lincoln.

We’d all like to vote for the best man, but he’s never a candidate.~Ken Hubbard

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule — and both commonly succeed, and are right. ~H.L. Mencken

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it. ~Clarence Darrow

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. ~Stewart Udall

(I especially like this one and see it as part of the problem, that we assume they are more than they are and thus we should bow down to their greater wisdom, dhg)

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ~Gore Vidal

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

(Which leads one to think they MUST be smarter than they seem — or we MUST be dumber than we think ourselves to be, dhg)

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

(The only problem with that is if you don’t leave it to politicians, you hand it to dictators, dhg)

The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win. ~Will Rogers

I notice we also tend to concentrate our thinking on presidents when senators, representatives, mayors and governors are also part of the motley mixture. dhg

And then there is the fact that governing produces many distractions:

“When you’re up to your ass in alligators, it’s easy to forget you came to drain the swamp.”

There is a historical maxim: People get the government they deserve.

The problem with political jokes is too many of them get elected.

Herman, you are right!

Never has there been a truer statement!