Political Wisdom (A Rare Topic)

 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~

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~

Politicians are people who, when they see the light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

    ~John Quinton~

Why pay money to have your family tree traced? Go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.

    ~Author unknown~

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 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, 1952~

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

    ~ Tex Guinan~

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

    ~Doug Larson~

And sadly, there is this:

We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate.

~Author unknown~