Not really political.......Just Quotes

Thought you might find this moderately interesting and worthy of a chuckle.

A rather widely cast net of spokesmen if, in fact, the quotes are real.

Funny either way.

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 Congressmen.
~Will Rogers~

My favorite
If you want a real friend that you can trust in Washington
get a dog.
- Harry Truman -