Carl Hiaasen Quotes
We’re blessed here in Florida with a group of politicians who for the most part are putzes.
Carl Hiaasen, Political Columnist, Speech, Miami Book Fair, November 21, 1999
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See {598081} for a similar idea expressed by his wife Hillary.
This Nixon technique of politicians and major American leaders blaming all the other leaders for a national crisis was used by both political parties during the aftermath of the Great Recession and economic meltdown of 2008.
This is an example of one of the many reasons that it is difficult to eradicate government corruption in some countries. The government leaders, even if they themselves are not corrupt, are suspected by many and lose face and honor when any corruption is uncovered because they either appointed the corrupt officials or tolerated them before. This occurred in American history when President Ulysses S. Grant, who was impeccably honest and upright throughout his two terms had a reputation for corruption and until recently was tarnished by that legacy because a number of his cabinet members were corrupt. Santos has the solution exactly right, but many are reluctant to use it and lose face.
In American politics, the politicians who tend to have the most certain views of how America’s military should fight, are often those who have never served in the military themselves. The same is often true for newspaper editors and publishers. Few military officers in every war have expressed these sentiments publicly, but there are even fewer who have not thought it.
He had been offered a Cabinet position in Washington. He had been a respected judge in Ohio and was only tangentially involved with politics. What he did see of it he did not like. However, others pressed upon him his duty to help the country and he took the position. But he was never comfortable or even very skilled and the political end of Cabinet service but he was extremely skilled at the administrative and policy making aspect. Theodore Roosevelt personally selected him to be his successor and Roosevelt get him elected. Even when he was President, he rarely enjoyed it and was not very good at the political end of things which caused Roosevelt to be disappointed and then campaign against Taft’s second term.
Carl Hiaasen is an American journalist and novelist. He began his career as a newspaper reporter and by the late 1970s had begun writing novels in his spare time, both for adults and for young-adult readers. Two of his novels have been made into feature films.
