slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

'The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.' ---Will Rogers

'In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In politics/diplomacy you cover the known.'---Thomas Pickering

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. ---Nancy Reagan

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
---Theodore Roosevelt

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.---Gore Vidal

On my arrival in the United States I was struck by the degree of ability among the governed and the lack of it among the governing.'---Alexis de Toqueville

'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

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
---Al Gore

"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."---Dan Quayle

Another Dan Quayle quote: "I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix."

'There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you'.---Will Rogers

'Politicians make strange bedfellows, but they all share the same bunk'. ---Edgar A. Shoaff

'You can fool all of the people all of the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.' ---
Joseph Levine

'Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges, even where there are no rivers'. ---Nikita Kruschchev

'Artificial hearts are nothing new. Politicians have had them for years.' ---Mack McGinnis

Don't v**e. You'll only encourage them.---Anon

'Although he is regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.' ---George Mitchell

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the t***h is putting on its shoes.---Mark Twain

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators---PJ O'Rourke

Crime does not pay as well as politics.---Alfred E. Newman

bahmer

Those are all good thanks for those sayings.

hdjimv Loc: South Dakota

Great post Slatten49! A lot of t***h in them.

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

The only thing worse than a bad memory, is remembering stuff that never happened.