Loud Thinking

Quotes……Politicians

We hang petty thieves and
appoint the bigger thieves to public office.
~Aesop, Greek slave & fable author
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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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Politicians are the same all over.
They promise to build a bridge
even where there is no river.
~Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Soviet politician
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When I was a boy
I was told that anybody could become PM;
I’m beginning to believe it.
~Quoted in ‘Clarence Darrow for the Defense’ by Irving Stone.
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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
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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.”
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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..
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A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
~Texas Guinan. 19th century American businessman
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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
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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)
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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 ….!!!