Politics & Politicians
• Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. -Plato
• Voters don’t decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. -George Will
• Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. -Gore Vidal
• Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. -Paul Valery
• We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. -Stewart L. Udall
• I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -Will Rogers
• A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. -Texas Guinan
• Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party. -Winston Churchill
• Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome. -Benjamin Whichcote
• I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you. -Ann Richards
• During a campaign the air is full of speeches – and vice versa. -Anonymous
• We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in. -Will Rogers
• Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party. -Winston Churchill
• Mankind will never see an end of trouble until… lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power… become lovers of wisdom. -Plato
• 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
• Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. -Plato
• In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. -Charles de Gaulle
• Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. -W.C. Fields
• Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. -Richard Armour
• Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond. -Thomas Love Peacock
• Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married? -Barbara Streisand
• To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up. -Ogden Nash
• I’ve had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn’t. -Patrick Murray
• All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage. -Lord Byron
• Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. -Elie Wiesel
• A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. -Arnold H. Glasow
• Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. -Abraham Lincoln
• We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations–we’re doing everything we can to keep our marriage together. -Rodney Dangerfield
• Women are confusing. They hate it when you ask how old they are, then they turn around and bite your head off if you forget their birthday. -Scott E. Roeben
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