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| We Do Deserve Them! |
These are gems of the best chucklers around any
time.
Enjoy:
I am reminded of a joke. What happens if a
politician drowns in a river? That is pollution.
What happens
if all of them drown? That is solution!!!
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
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| We Put Them There |
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
Finally on the just concluded Obama-Mit Romney, a snub at Mitt Romney.
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| At Least He had Staying Power |
Did you laughed out
loud?
