Sunday, 17 January 2010

When quotes of the day actually are apt for Japanese politics

Maybe Our Man's has been hitting the falling-down-water too long, but it strikes him that the QUOTES OF THE DAY feed at the bottom right there were rather apt for describing Ozawa's woes:

Quotes of the Day for January 16, 2010
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
Herb Caen

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
Thomas Szasz

You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Cecil Baxter

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
Evan Esar

3 comments:

Janne Morén said...

He's a weird guy. One one hand he's very much the old-school politician; on the other, he really does seem to honestly aim for a change of system that would make people like himself be out of a job.

Everyone - hero or villain - is complex.

datsun kildare said...

I normally rely on groucho Marx to see straight to the heart of any issue,even though he's dead.

Our Man in Abiko said...

Oh, DK, you're one of those creative Marxists Our Man read about in college.