Saturday, February 25, 2012
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Great Quotes
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
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* Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
~Gore Vidal
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* I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
~Charles de Gaulle
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* Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
~Doug Larson
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* Don't vote, it only encourages them.
~Author Unknown
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* There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
~Will Rogers
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
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