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02/14/2014 12:24:26 PM · #1 |
Political Aphorisms are short, pithy comments about politics and/or politicians that have a ring of edgy truth to them. Post up the best YOU'VE heard. Here are a couple to get it started:
"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 |
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02/14/2014 12:37:14 PM · #2 |
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'" - Ronald Reagan
and another:
"Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his."
Message edited by author 2014-02-14 12:38:53. |
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02/14/2014 01:08:49 PM · #3 |
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." âMark Twain
âThere is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." âMark Twain
"Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can." âMark Twain
Gotta love Mark Twain. |
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02/14/2014 01:19:27 PM · #4 |
"Politics have no relation to morals" - Niccolo Machiavelli
"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." John Acton
"Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians." Charles de Gaulle |
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02/14/2014 01:29:58 PM · #5 |
"The highly ceramic art of molding scum to your own desires." Francis Leo Golden
"The art of obtaining money from the rich and votes from the poor on the pretext of protecting each from the other." Oscar Ameringer
" Government by amateurs." Maxwell Anderson
" A form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." George Bernard Shaw |
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02/14/2014 01:36:21 PM · #6 |
âUntil they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.â
- George Orwell, 1984
Message edited by author 2014-02-14 13:36:31. |
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02/14/2014 01:41:16 PM · #7 |
| "A war in which everyone shoots from the lip." Raymond Moley |
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02/14/2014 01:46:23 PM · #8 |
Get me started why don't you ... :-)
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
â Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
â Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
â Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994)
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
â Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
â Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
â Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
â Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), quoted in Saturday Review, Aug. 25, 1962
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
â Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
â Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary |
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02/14/2014 01:55:45 PM · #9 |
"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 |
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02/14/2014 02:15:40 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river." -- Nikita Khrushchev
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Politicians will create river just so they can promise to build a over it. - Michael Alestra |
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02/14/2014 03:34:41 PM · #11 |
Not sure this counts as short but......
Dr joke: Easiest patients to operate on? - Politicians - No heart, guts, balls, spine or brains and the head and ass are interchangeable...... |
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