If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
~ Jay Leno

The problem with political jokes is 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 State of the
Union speeches, there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.
~ Will Rogers

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 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

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

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.
~ Doug Larson