Nonpartisan Humour

 We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

~Aesop, Greek slave & fable author



Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed

by those who are dumber.

~Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher



Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where

there is no river.

~Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Soviet politician



When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm

beginning to believe it.

~Quoted in 'Clarence Darrow for the Defence' by Irving Stone.



Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go

out and buy some more tunnel.

~John Quinton, American actor/writer



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, "The Mark Twain of American Socialism."



I offered my opponents a deal: "If they stop telling lies about me, 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.

~Texas Guinan, 19th century American businessman



Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to

change the locks.

~Doug Larson (English middle-distance runner who won gold medals at the 1924

~Olympic Games in Paris, 1902-1981)







I am reminded of a joke:

What happens if a politician drowns in a river? That is pollution.

What happens if all of them drown? That is a solution!!!

Thanks Win