QUOTABLE QUOTES FROM THE GREATS IN HISTORY

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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  _____________________________________________________________________________ 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."  _______________________________________________________________________________ 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