Political 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

 The Democrats are   the party that says government will make you
 smarter, taller, richer, and   remove the crabgrass on your lawn.  The
 Republicans are the party that   says government doesn't work and then
 they get elected and prove it.    ~P.J. O'Rourke

 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:    [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