"Not only is Lincoln one of my political heroes," Obama said, "but like Lincoln, I served for seven years in Springfield in the state Senate, and it's there I learned how to legislate, it's there that I developed many of my political ideas." Certainly not in Chicago, oh no, never, nada.
- "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
- Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
16th president of US (1809 - 1865)
But you only have to fool a simple majority of the Senate and House of Representatives and the President to pass most laws. So then, maybe Lincoln's aphorism is true, true, true and irrelevant to the political process. By the way I think when people use the word "attributed" they usually mean that the quote sounds good, but they can't track down the actual reference.
"Not only is Lincoln one of my political heroes," Obama said, "but like Lincoln, I served for seven years in Springfield in the state Senate, and it's there I learned how to legislate, it's there that I developed many of my political ideas." Certainly not in Chicago, oh no, never, nada.
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