Since this is a political season.. here are few apt quotes!
Courtesy: Ram
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 Mark Twain of American Socialism.”
I offered my opponents a deal:
“if they stop telling lies about me, 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. 19th century American businessman
I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
— Charles de Gaulle, French general & politician
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
— Doug Larson (English middle-distance runner who won gold medals at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, 1902-1981)
We hang petty thieves and appoint the bigger thieves to public office.
— Aesop, Greek slave & fable author
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
— Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
— Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Russian politician
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president; I’m beginning to believe it.
— Quoted in ‘Clarence Darrow for the Defense’ by Irving Stone.
Politicians are people who,when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
— John Quinton, American actor/writer
Finally:
What happens if a politician drowns in a river?
— That is pollution…
What happens if all of them drown?
— That is a solution ….!!!
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