AREN"T THEY THE SAME ALL OVER?

 

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

 

If God wanted us to vote,

he would have given us candidates.

~ Jay Leno

 

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

 

Politics:

[Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites"]

~ Larry Hardiman

 

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