[StBernard] Too True!

[Westley Annis]

Too True! 
    
The problem with political jokes is that 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 had 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  



The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter,
taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are
the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and
prove it. ~ P.J. O'Rourke  



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