onsdag 26. januar 2011

Political Quotes



Take our politicians:  they're a bunch of yo-yos.  The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.
Saul Bellow

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
Ernest Benn

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de Gaulle

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

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
Martin L. Gross

Politicians are like diapers.  They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.
Anonymous

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.  
H.L. Mencken

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