[6ppc]

An honest politician is one who stays bought...paraphrased from one of his books. I think it was "The Man Who Sold The Moon"

[alfa6]

"An honest politican is one who stays bought"

That was Jubal Harshaw refering to Joe Douglas in Stranger in a Strange Land.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[steve-b]

An honest politician is one who stays bought... paraphrased from one of his books.

This was said by Simon Cameron (the Union Secretary of War during the Civil War -- who was as crooked as a bolt of lightning), and was probably an old truism even then.