Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician’s corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged. ~Hilaire Belloc, Epitaph on the Politician Himself It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. ~GK Chesterton, The Cleveland Press, 1921 (Thanks to Robert Katz, who says: “When I think of Ted Kennedy, these are the first two things that come to mind.”)