WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 20 Aug 2026 22:59:34 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg issues – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Watterson, Bill -- Calvin and Hobbes (1993-11-16) https://wist.info/watterson-bill/83998/ https://wist.info/watterson-bill/83998/#respond Tue, 12 May 2026 20:55:28 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=83998 Calvin & Hobbes 1993-11-16 excerpt

CALVIN: I don’t care about issues! I’ve got better things to do than argue with every wrong-headed crackpot with an ignorant opinion! I’m a busy man! I say, either agree with me or take a hike! I’m right, period! End of discussion!


Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1993-11-16)
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/watterson-bill/83998/feed/ 0 83998 Stevenson, Adlai -- Speech (1952-09-29), “Fireside Chat” (radio and television broadcast) https://wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewing/78159/ https://wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewing/78159/#respond Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:10:18 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=78159 A campaign addressed not to men’s minds and to their best instincts, but to their passions, emotions and prejudices, is unworthy at best — now, with the fate of the nation at stake, it is unbearable.


Adlai Stevenson II (1900–1965) American politician, diplomat, statesman
Speech (1952-09-29), “Fireside Chat” (radio and television broadcast)

Reported in the Washington Evening Star (1952-09-30). Also reported in TIME Magazine, "National Affairs: Stevenson on Communism" (1952-10-13). ]]> https://wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewing/78159/feed/ 0 78159 Rogers, Will -- Column (1928-07-08), “Weekly Article: Where Are the Eyes of the World Now?” [No. 289] https://wist.info/rogers-will/77793/ https://wist.info/rogers-will/77793/#respond Fri, 18 Jul 2025 20:20:35 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=77793 Personally I think the Camera has done more harm for Politics than any other one faction. Everybody would rather get their picture than their ideas in the paper. What does the platform of a Political party amount to compared to the photography?


Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist
Column (1928-07-08), “Weekly Article: Where Are the Eyes of the World Now?” [No. 289]
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/rogers-will/77793/feed/ 0 77793 Garfield, James A. -- Diary (1876) https://wist.info/garfield-james-a/43613/ https://wist.info/garfield-james-a/43613/#respond Fri, 09 Oct 2020 17:24:43 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=43613 Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.


James A. Garfield (1831–1881) US President (1881), lawyer, lay preacher, educator
Diary (1876)
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/garfield-james-a/43613/feed/ 0 43613 Churchill, Winston -- Speech, New York (25 Jan 1932) https://wist.info/churchill-winston/33224/ https://wist.info/churchill-winston/33224/#respond Thu, 07 Apr 2016 14:33:24 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=33224 The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for determining great issues on their merits.

Churchill - harassed politicians - wist_info quote


Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British statesman and author
Speech, New York (25 Jan 1932) ]]> https://wist.info/churchill-winston/33224/feed/ 0 33224 Orwell, George -- Essay (1946-04), “Politics and the English Language,” Horizon Magazine https://wist.info/orwell-george/19477/ https://wist.info/orwell-george/19477/#respond Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:12:46 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=19477 In our age there is no such thing as “keeping out of politics.” All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia.


George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-04), “Politics and the English Language,” Horizon Magazine
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