• “A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.” - Tex Guinan
• “Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.” - Gore Vidal
• “Don’t vote; it only encourages them.” - Unknown
• “I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.” - Charles de Gaulle
• “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
• “If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.” - Jay Leno
• “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
• “Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.” - Doug Larson
• “Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.” - John Quinton
• “Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.” - Nikita Khrushchev
• “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 problem with political joe-ks is they get elected.” - Henry Cate, VII
• “There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.” - Will Rogers
• “Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” - Plato
• “We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” - Aesop
• “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.” - Unknown
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