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Political Quotes
For amusement today's blog contains a variety of political quotes from various authors. Enjoy!

• Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. Author Unknown


• There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. Alexis de Tocqueville


• I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough. Clarie Sargent, Arizona senatorial candidate


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


• When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. Clarence Darrow


• George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles. Author Unknown


• 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


• Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. John Quinton


• Don't vote, it only encourages them. Author Unknown


• 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


• There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen. Author Unknown


• The problem with political jokes is they get elected. Henry Cate, VII


• Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party. Winston Churchill


• The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn't bother to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club. Dave Barry


• Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. Ronald Reagan


• A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. Texas Guinan


• We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in. Will Rogers


• A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. Carl Sandburg


• When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. P.J. O'Rourke


• A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation. James Freeman Clarke, Sermon


• No matter how healthy a man's morals may be when he enters the White House, he comes out again with a pot-marked soul.
  quoted in My Father Mark Twain, Clara Clemens


• To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.
  Mark Twain's Autobiography