Political Quotes
This was being passed around the office today. Some I knew, a lot I didn't and got a good laugh.
- If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. ~Jay Leno
- 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 State of the Union 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. ~ Tex 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
- 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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