The American Dream

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AREN"T THEY THE SAME ALL OVER?

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 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 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

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

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession .
I have come to realize that it
bears a very close resemblance to the first.
~ Ronald Reagan

Politics:
[Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites"]
~ Larry Hardiman

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