Political Aphorisms ... thx Sarah R!

If God wanted us to vote,  he would have given us candidates .      ~Jay Leno~    The problem with political jokes  is they get elected.      ~Henry Cate, VII~    We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.      ~Aesop~    If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these State of the Union speeches,  there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.      ~Will Rogers~    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~    Why pay money to have your family tree traced;  go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.      ~Author unknown~    Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel,  go out and buy some more tunnel.      ~John Quinton~    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~   A politician is a fellow  who will lay down your life  for his country.      ~ Tex Guinan~    I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.      ~Charles de Gaulle~    Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.      ~Doug Larson~