“A people that elect corrupt politicians…are not victims…but accomplices.” — George Orwell
“There’s an old saying in Tennessee – I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee – that says, fool me once, shame on – shame on you. Fool me – you can’t get fooled again.“
Speech in Nashville, Tennessee, (September 17, 2002), in which the president confused a centuries-old proverb (“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.”)