25 February 2015, 05:21
xgruntApolitical Aphorisms
"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~
"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~
"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."