Essential Political Truths:

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Essential Political Truths: :-D

-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

-If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. ~ Jay Leno

-When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ~ Clarence Darrow

-Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it m ight be better to change the locks. ~ Doug Larson

-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

-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

-Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ~ Nikita Khrushchev

-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 g etting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. ~ Oscar Ameringer

-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

Peter

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BeeMaster2

Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.
Ben Franklin

iddee

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me . . . Anything can happen, child. Anything can be"

*Shel Silverstein*