“All roads lead to my dogs, don't they?”
Janeane Garofalo (1964) comedian, actress, political activist, writer
self-titled TV comedy special, 1997
Standup routines
“To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.”
"The Designers and the Politicians" (1962), later published in Beyond Left & Right : Radical Thought for Our Times (1968) by Richard Kostelanetz, p. 368
1960s
Context: Technology paces industry, but there's a long lag in the process. Industry paces economics. It changes the tools, a great ecological change. And in that manner we come finally to everyday life.
The politician is someone who deals in man's problems of adjustment. To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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