George Bernard Shaw Quotes
It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.
Shaw, George Bernard. Everybody's Political What's What?. Constable and Co., 1944, p. 42.
See {598081} for a similar idea expressed by his wife Hillary.
She had not been able to get some of questions answered about the then current policy of holding suspected undocumented immigrants with a criminal record in detention until deportation. The Immigration and Naturalization Service, in response to the Sequester law was reducing costs by using other forms of monitoring for suspects with minor criminal records. Instead of writing the Secretary—an Arizona ex Governor herself—or the President—and waiting a reasonable time for a response, she reached this strange conclusion the following day. An immigration basher, she rarely passed up an opportunity to make a public dramatic statement bashing the immigration policies and practices of America.
George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
