Ned Hardy tends to get the facts wrong. So here is a more complete George Carlin quote “Now, there’s one thing you might have noticed I don’t complain about:
politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they
suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They
don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from
another reality. They come from American parents and American families,
American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses
and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens.
This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s
what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish,
ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term
limits ain’t going to do any good; you’re just going to end up with a
brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe,
it’s not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around
here… like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There’s a nice
campaign slogan for somebody: ‘The Public Sucks. F*ck Hope.’”