From: "william brockett" <brockettw@bellsouth.net>
Date: Sep 14, 2012 6:09 PM
Subject: Fwd: Tis' an election year.
Date: Sep 14, 2012 6:09 PM
Subject: Fwd: Tis' an election year.
A Wonderful
Compilation of Essential Truths:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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