Quotes

* 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~ * 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'll 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~ * Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ~Doug Larson~