Politicians

2012 is election year in the US, Russia, China. France, Egypt, Mexico,                          Taiwan, Venezuela, Kuwait and about 30 other countries around the world, so the following  quotes are                                in order. . .   We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones 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, Russian Soviet 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   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."       The Democrats are the party that says government will make  you      smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your  lawn.                                     AND    The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work  and                     then they get elected and prove it.                      ~P.J. O'Rourke, American comedian   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)            The problem with political jokes is they get elected.       ~ Variously attributed to Will Rogers and George Bernard  Shaw

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