Stephen Clarke: Quotes about people

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“A French politician without a mistress is like a sheriff without a gun—people think he has no firepower.”

Stephen Clarke book A Year in the Merde

On French Politician
A Year in the Merde (2005)

“The Communists were promising retirement for all state employees at age 35. The Socialists were proposing absolutely nothing because they couldn't elect a leader who would propose things. The centre-right parties (of which there were about ten) were all promising employers that they would no longer have to pay workers and would be exempt from prosecution for any industrial pollution that killed fewer than 100,000 people. The far right was proposing, less realistically, to have immigrants barbecued in every place du marché on Friday nights. And in a similar vein, the rural party promised to change the law on endangered species so that hunters could now shoot dodos, unicorns, mermaids and American tourists.”

Stephen Clarke book A Year in the Merde

on political parties in France before an election:
A Year in the Merde (2005)

“Red lights are like queues. They are for people who have time to waste.”

Stephen Clarke book A Year in the Merde

On traffic
A Year in the Merde (2005)