Political Quips...
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 3:51 pm
* I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After
all, we've been voting for boobs long enough. ~ Clarie Sargent ,
Arizona senatorial candidate
* 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
all, we've been voting for boobs long enough. ~ Clarie Sargent ,
Arizona senatorial candidate
* 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