Tuesday 7 January 2014

Politicians and Politics as defined by some of the Greats!


Subject: Politicians and Politics as defined by some of the Greats!

Let us see in the times to come how Kejriwal defines politics or people define Kejriwal! In the meantime, enjoy the quotations reflecting their characters!


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 Defense' 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


I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
~Charles de Gaulle, French general & politician



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 solution!!!

(I don't know who said this,)

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