Political quotes from the past

From: Georgie Hinklemyer <samoolives_at_yahoo.com_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 06:08:19 -0000

Sorry to forward spam here, but these were too cute to keep to myself.
--G.H.

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


We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate.
~Frank McKinney ("Kin" Hubbard)


All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and
justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest
good will exert upon events in the political field. ~Albert Einstein


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


A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better
day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. ~Leonard
Bernstein


Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being
governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato


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


Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism
is distrust of the people tempered by fear. ~William E. Gladstone, 1866


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


America is the country where anybody can grow up to win the popular
vote. ~ Al Gore


The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in
moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral
justification for selfishness. ~John Kenneth Galbraith


A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're
dead. ~Leo Rosten


The Democrats are the party that says government will make you
smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The
Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then
they get elected and prove it. ~P.J. O'Rourke


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 have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to
be left to the politicians. ~Charles de Gaulle


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


The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them
can win. ~Will Rogers


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


Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. ~George
Will

Politics, n: [Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites" ]
~Larry Hardiman

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at
driver's-license age than at voting age. ~Marshall McLuhan


Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ~George
Jean Nathan

The Christian Right is neither. ~Author Unknown


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


How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50
for Miss America? ~Author Unknown


Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with
the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of
nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares
itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.
~Charles Krauthammer
Received on 2005-01-28 22:08:33