Daily Quotes

"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

"A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country." -- Texas Guinan. 19th-century American businessman

"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.

"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

"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

"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 Defence' by Irving Stone.

"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river." -- Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Soviet politician

"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber." -- Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher

"We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." -- Aesop, Greek slave & fable author

"Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.’" -- Alfred Lord Tennyson