The problem with political jokes Is they get elected.
~Henry Cate,VII
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
~Aesop
If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches
there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.
~Will Rogers
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being
governed by those who are dumber.
~Plato
Politicians are the same all over, they promise to build a bridge even
where there is no river.
~Nikita Khrushchev
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm
beginning to believe it.
~Clarence Darrow
Why pay money to have your family tree traced; Go into politics and your
opponents will do it for you.
~Author Unknown
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel,
go out and buy some more tunnel.
~John Quinton
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign
funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
~Oscar Ameringer
I offer my opponents a bargain: If they will stop telling lies about us, I
will stop telling the truth about them.
~Adlai Stevenson, Campaign Speech, 1952
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
~Texas Guinan
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by
definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
~Gore Vidal
I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be
left to the politicians.
~Charles de Gaulle
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to
realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
~Ronald Reagan
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to
change the locks.
~Doug Larson
Don't vote, it only encourages them.
~Author Unknown
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on
senators.
~Will Rogers
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