[BITList] Fwd: Politics

[Michael Feltham]

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> Food for thought, looks like nothing has changed since the Greeks! 
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> Politics is the gentle art of getting votes
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> from the poor and campaign funds from the rich,
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> by promising to protect each from the other.
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> ~Oscar Amringer, "the Mark Twain of American Socialism."
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> I offered my opponents a deal:
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> "if they stop telling lies about me,
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> I will stop telling the truth about them".
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> ~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952..
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> A politician is a fellow who will lay down
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> your life for his country.
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> ~Texas Guinan. 19th century American businessman
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> I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious
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> a matter to be left to the politicians.
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> ~Charles de Gaulle, French general & politician
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> Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city,
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> it might be better to change the locks.
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> ~Doug Larson (English middle-distance runner who won gold medals at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, 1902-1981)
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> We hang petty thieves and appoint the bigger thieves to public office.
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> ~Aesop, Greek slave & fable author 
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> Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being
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> governed by those who are dumber.
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> ~Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher
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> Politicians are the same all over.
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> They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
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> ~Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Soviet politician
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> When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become PM;
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> I'm beginning to believe it.
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> ~Quoted in 'Clarence Darrow for the Defense' by Irving Stone.
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> Politicians are people who,
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> when they see light at the end of the tunnel, 
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> go out and buy some more tunnel.
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> ~John Quinton, American actor/writer
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> What happens if a politician drowns in a river?
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> It's pollution.
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> What happens if all of them drown?
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> It's a solution ....!!!
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