Comment #5

Jani Norman — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 20:00:28 GMT

I agree with them all, I feel this way about the big picture......Let me know when they start walking water, and parting seas...

Comment #4

sully16 — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 12:11:44 GMT

Thanks Emily

Comment #3

rdgrnr — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 01:31:41 GMT

<br />"The problem with political jokes is they get elected." <br />~Henry Cate, VII~ <br /><br />Yeah and these last 2 elections prove it.<br

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emilyg — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:10:38 GMT

I really like the last one.

Comment #1

MADDOG10 — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 17:26:30 GMT

Ah, words of wit for the political pundits.. Thanks Em...!

Original Blog Entry: Apolitical Aphorisms

emilyg — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 16:50:35 GMT

Apolitical Aphorisms

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~

There ought to be one day -- just one -- when there is open season on senators.

~Will Rogers~

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