Saturday, April 19, 2014

Oh These Are Good and Funny!!


* 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

* 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

* 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

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