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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
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