Politicians

What happens if a politician drowns in a river? That is pollution.

What happens if all of them drown? That is solution!!!


We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

~ Aesop , Greek slave & fable author
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed
by those who are dumber.

~ Plato , ancient Greek Philosopher
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where
there is no river.

~ Nikita Khrushchev , Russian politician




When 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/writer


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 Mark Twain of American Socialism"


The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter,
taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn.

AND ......................

The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then
they get elected and prove it.

~ P.J. O'Rourke , American comedian


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 businessman


I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be
left to the politicians.

~ Charles de Gaulle , French general & politician


Instead 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)

"Politics is the last resort of a scoundrel."


The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
~ Variously attributed to Will Rogers and George Bernard Shaw