13 Political Quotes

1. I think it’s about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we’ve been voting for boobs long enough.
~Clarie Sargent, Arizona senatorial candidate

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

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

4. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ~Nikita Khrushchev

5. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it. ~Clarence Darrow

6. Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. ~Author Unknown

7. 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

8. 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

9. Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ~Gore Vidal

10. I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ~Charles de Gaulle

11. Don’t vote, it only encourages them. ~Author Unknown

12. There ought to be one day – just one – when there is open season on senators. ~Will Rogers

13. A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. ~Texas Guinan