In my undergraduate days – the late sixties and early seventies – California politician Jess Unruh was probably the most cynical professional politician I could quote. He probably still is, but his one-liners aren’t so easy to find online as many lesser people. Lyndon Johnson once described him as “probably the most selfish man I have met in politics.” His run for governor of California was stopped by Ronald Reagan’s successful campaign. Anyway, here’s a bit of the world, as seen by California’s Speaker of the State Assembly and later State Treasurer:
Ecology has become the political substitute for the word “motherhood.”
Unruh, in his time as Speaker of the Assembly, moved the California from a part-time legislature dominated by amateurs to a full-time professional legislative body. That is a blessing or a curse, depending upon your perspective. But he did have a way with words.
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