July 2, 2015
One Liners about Politicians
We bitch about politicians but what do we expect when they raise campaign funds privately? If we wanted politicians to represent us instead of their donors, we would fund elections publicly for the cost of a few jet fighters. Clearly, we are not serious about democracy.
*If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
*~JayLeno~
*The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
*~HenryCate, 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~
*When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
*~ClarenceDarrow~
*Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, they go out andbuy some more tunnel.
*~JohnQuinton~
*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.
*~OscarAmeringer~
*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 havecome to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to thepoliticians.
*~Charlesde Gaulle~
*Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change thelocks.
*~Doug Larson~
*There ought to be one day -- just one -- when there is open season on senators.
*~Will Rogers~
* and from HarryTruman: If you want a real friend - that you can trust in Washington - go buy a dog!
