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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"What was it that P.T. Barnum said?..."
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
Sen Ted Cruz just a few minutes ago...
This man is a fucking moron.
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"What was it that P.T. Barnum said?..." (Original Post)
MrScorpio
Sep 2013
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ananda
(28,854 posts)1. There's a sucker born every minute.
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wasn't that W.C. Fields? Maybe he just repeated it.
elleng
(130,825 posts)2. EVERY MINUTE!!!
pscot
(21,024 posts)3. And it was George Bush who said
you can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones we want.
pepperbear
(5,648 posts)5. that quote is attributed to lincoln.
the quote that's incorrectly attributed to barnum is...
"there's a sucker born every minute, and two to take him."
LiberalAndProud
(12,799 posts)6. Actually, he said, "Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung."
There you have it.