{"id":3205,"date":"2016-06-18T09:14:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T13:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=3205"},"modified":"2016-06-22T12:09:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T16:09:36","slug":"quotes-quips-on-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=3205","title":{"rendered":"Quotes &#038; Quips on Politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. &#8211; Plato<\/li>\n<li>The problem with political jokes is they get elected. &#8211; Henry Cate, VII<\/li>\n<li>We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. \u2013 Aesop<\/li>\n<li>I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. &#8211; Charles de Gaulle<\/li>\n<li>If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn&#8217;t be any inducement to go to heaven. &#8211; Will Rogers<\/li>\n<li>Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. &#8211; Nikita Khrushchev<\/li>\n<li>Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. &#8211; John Quinton<\/li>\n<li>A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. &#8211; Texas Guinan<\/li>\n<li>Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. &#8211; Doug Larson<\/li>\n<li>I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. &#8211; Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952<\/li>\n<li>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. &#8211; Oscar Ameringer<\/li>\n<li>When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I&#8217;m beginning to believe it. &#8211; Clarence Darrow<\/li>\n<li>Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. &#8211; Gore Vidal<\/li>\n<li>There ought to be one day &#8211; just one &#8211; when there is open season on senators. &#8211; Will Rogers<\/li>\n<li>Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. &#8211; Ronald Reagan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/taxes2.jpg\" alt=\"taxes2\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/taxes2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/taxes2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/taxes2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/taxes2-450x450.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Chris George, providing reliable PR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer or experienced communicator? 613-983-0801 @<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/cgacommunications.com\/m\/\" target=\"_blank\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. &#8211; Plato The problem with political jokes is they get elected. &#8211; Henry Cate, VII We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. \u2013 Aesop I have come to the conclusion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[30,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3205"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8362,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions\/8362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}