If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
~Jay Leno~
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 State of the
Union speeches, there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.
~Will Rogers~
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~
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.
~ Tex Guinan~
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~