Apolitical Aphorisms

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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~



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~



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~



There ought to be one day -- just one -- when there is open season on senators.

~Will Rogers~