We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
~Aesop, Greek slave & fable authorThose who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed
by those who are dumber.
~Plato, ancient Greek PhilosopherPoliticians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where
there is no river.
~Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Soviet politicianWhen I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m
beginning to believe it.
~Quoted in ‘Clarence Darrow for the Defense’ by Irving Stone.Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go
out and buy some more tunnel.
~John Quinton, American actor/writerPolitics 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, “the Mark Twain of American Socialism.”I offered my opponents a deal: “if they stop telling lies about me, 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. 19th century American businessmanI have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be
left to the politicians.
~Charles de Gaulle, French general & politicianInstead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to
change the locks.
~Doug Larson (English middle-distance runner who won gold medals at the 1924
Olympic Games in Paris, 1902-1981)I am reminded of a joke: What happens if a politician drowns in a river? That is pollution.
What happens if all of them drown? That is solution!!!God Bless and keep reading