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Saturday, 23 June 2012

POLITICAL HUMOR

POLITICAL HUMOR


The problem with political jokesIs they get elected. ~Henry Cate,VII We hang the petty thieves and appoint The great ones to public office.  ~Aesop

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us In these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be
Any inducement to go to heaven.  ~Will Rogers

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

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

When I was a boy I was told that anybodyCould 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 fromThe 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

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

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

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

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession.  I have come to realize that it bears a veryClose resemblance to the first.  ~Ronald Reagan

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, It might be better to change the locks.  ~Doug LarsonDon't vote, it only encourages them. ~Author Unknown

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