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Thu 29 Sep, 2005 12:38 pm
"Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it would be good for your character. Democrats would throw you a hundred-foot rope and then walk away with you unsaved looking for other good deeds to do."
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Candy
I found at least 2 references similar to this
Quote:Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it would be good for your character. Democrats would throw you a hundred-foot rope and then walk away looking for other good deeds to do.
Sen. S.I. Hayakawa
I found this one by Mort Sahl:
"Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning fifty feet off shore, he'd throw you a thirty foot rope. Then Kissinger would go on TV the next night and say that the President had met you more than half-way."
http://www.chara.gsu.edu/~gudehus/Quotations/quotations_rst.html
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