
“Mi diagnóstico es sencillo: sé que no tengo remedio”
Hopscotch
Variante: Mi diagnóstico es sencillo, sé que no tengo remedio.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.
Apparently attributed to Marx in Bennett Cerf's Try and Stop Me, first published in 1944. A citation of this can been seen in the Kentucky New Era on November 9, 1964 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=X-orAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZWcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4581,3323702&dq=art-of-looking-for-trouble&hl=en. Also attributed to Marx by Rand Paul in "The Long Stand," ch. 1 of Taking a Stand: Moving Beyond Partisan Politics to Unite America (New York, N. Y.: Center Street, 26 May 2015), p. 5.
The original quotation belongs to Sir Ernest Benn (Henry Powell Spring, What is Truth?, Orange Press, 1944, p. 31 https://books.google.com/books?id=snxbAAAAMAAJ&q=Ernest+benn+%22Politics+is+the+art+of%22&dq=Ernest+benn+%22Politics+is+the+art+of%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAjgUahUKEwiK3Zm-qojIAhWGVZIKHdFYBqY); a first known citation reportedly appears in the Springfield (MA) Republican on July 27, 1930.
Misattributed
Variante: Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Fuente: Gyles Brandreth, Word Play: A cornucopia of puns, anagrams and other contortions and curiosities of the English language, Coronet, 2015.
“Mi diagnóstico es sencillo: sé que no tengo remedio”
Hopscotch
Variante: Mi diagnóstico es sencillo, sé que no tengo remedio.
“[Estas] “graves penalidades resisten los remedios que los gobiernos pueden aplicar.””
Fuente: Entrevista. http://www.adn.es/cultura/20071017/NWS-3384-nacionalismo-colmado-vaso.html ADN.
Del artículo " Horas de invierno http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/lrr/91359175098804506388868/p0000001.htm#I_1_" publicado en El Español. Diario de las Doctrinas y los Intereses Sociales, n.º 420, domingo 25 de diciembre de 1836.
“La vocación del político de carrera es hacer de cada solución un problema.”
“Para todo problema complejo hay una solución simple y equivocada.”