Political Wisdom

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

~Texas Guinan

The problem with political jokes is that they get elected.

~Henry Cate, VII

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

~Aesop

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

~Plato

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

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.

~Gary Larson

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

~Will Rogers