Posted by Christopher Hitchens
“The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
There’s a trend for politicians to make a virtue of sticking to election promises; it has led to fewer, and duller, promises, and politicians feeling obliged to keep promises they’ve since discovered are dumb. Mark Blackham.
