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\u201cI have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.\u201d – Charles de Gaulle<\/p>\n
\u201cThe word \u201cpolitics\u201d is derived from the Greek word \u201cpoly,\u201d meaning \u201cmany,\u201d and the word \u201cticks,\u201d meaning \u201cblood sucking parasites.\u201d \u2013 anonymous<\/p>\n
\u201cPolitics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.\u201d – Oscar Ameringer (the Mark Twain of American Socialism)<\/p>\n
\u201cI offered my opponents a deal: “if they stop telling lies about me, I will stop telling the truth about them”.\u201d – Adlai Stevenson (in a campaign speech in 1952)<\/p>\n
\u201cA politician is a fellow\u00a0who will lay down your life\u00a0for his country.\u201d – Texas Guinan<\/p>\n
\u201cInstead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.\u201d – Doug Larson<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hang petty thieves and appoint the bigger thieves to public office.\u201d \u2013 Aesop<\/p>\n
\u201cThose who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are\u00a0dumber.\u201d \u2013 Plato<\/p>\n
\u201cPoliticians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.\u201d – Nikita Khrushchev<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I was a boy I was told that anybody could become PM; I’m beginning to believe\u00a0it.\u201d – Quoted in ‘Clarence Darrow for the Defense’ by Irving Stone.<\/p>\n
\u201cPoliticians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.\u201d – John Quinton<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happens if a politician drowns in a river? That is pollution. What happens if all of them drown? That is\u00a0a\u00a0solution!\u201d \u2013 anonymous<\/p>\n
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