{"id":246,"date":"2012-02-01T07:42:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T07:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2012\/02\/01\/words-of-wisdom\/"},"modified":"2012-02-01T07:42:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T07:42:28","slug":"words-of-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2012\/02\/01\/words-of-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"words of wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\n1. The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~Henry Cate, VII<\/p>\n<p>\t2. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~Aesop<\/p>\n<p>\t3. If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn&#8217;t be any inducement to go to heaven.<br \/>\n\t~Will Rogers<\/p>\n<p>\t4. Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato<\/p>\n<p>\t5. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ~Nikita Khrushchev<\/p>\n<p>\t6. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I&#8217;m beginning to believe it. ~Clarence Darrow<\/p>\n<p>\t7. Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. ~Author Unknown<\/p>\n<p>\t8. If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. ~Jay Leno<\/p>\n<p>\t9. Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. ~John Quinton<\/p>\n<p>\t10. 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<\/p>\n<p>\t11. The Democrats seem to be basically nice people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of<br \/>\n\tcelery. They&#8217;re the kind of people who might stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be<br \/>\n\treluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn&#8217;t bother to stop because they&#8217;d want to be on time at the country club. ~Dave Barry<\/p>\n<p>\t12. The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The<br \/>\n\tRepublicans are the party that says government doesn&#8217;t work and then they get elected and prove it. ~P.J. O&#8217;Rourke<\/p>\n<p>\t13. 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<\/p>\n<p>\t14. A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. ~Texas Guinan<\/p>\n<p>\t15. Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ~Gore Vidal<\/p>\n<p>\t16. I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ~Charles de Gaulle<\/p>\n<p>\t17. Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.<br \/>\n\t~Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n<p>\t18. Politics: [Poly &quot;many&quot; + tics &quot;blood-sucking parasites&quot;] ~Larry Hardiman<\/p>\n<p>\t19. Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ~Doug Larson<\/p>\n<p>\t20. There ought to be one day &#8211; just one &#8211; when there is open season on senators. ~Will Rogers<\/p>\n<p>\t21. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. ~ Benjamin<br \/>\n\tFranklin<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<p>No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~Henry Cate, VII 2. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~Aesop 3. 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