VOTE

As we head to the polls in Canada:

For the cynics:

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


"The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."
— Adolf Hitler

"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
— Ronald Reagan

"Read my lips — NO NEW TAXES!"
— George Bush

For the media analysts:

"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read 'President Can't Swim'."
— Lyndon B. Johnson

For the believers:

"Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist."
— George Marshall [as in, The Marshall Plan]

"The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now."
— Lech Walesa

"All the world wondered as they witnessed ... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride."
— Corazon Aquino