Political Pundits Speak

[Catsumi]

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> If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
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> ~Jay Leno~
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> The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
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> ~ Henry Cate, VII ~
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> We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office
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> ~Aesop~
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> If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these speeches,
there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.
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> ~Will Rogers~
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> Politicians are the same all over.
They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
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> ~ Nikita Khrushchev ~
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> When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President or Prime Minister;
I'm beginning to believe it.
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> ~Clarence Darrow~
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> Why pay money to have your family tree traced;
go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.
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> ~Author unknown~
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> Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel,
go out and buy some more tunnel.
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> ~John Quinton~
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> 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.
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> ~Oscar Ameringer~
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> I offer my opponents a bargain:
if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.
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> ~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952~
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> A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
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> ~ Tex Guinan~
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> I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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> ~ 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.
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> ~Doug Larson~
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> There ought to be one day -- just one -- when there is open season on politicians.
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> ~Will Rogers~
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