Apolitical Aphorisms

Contributed by Rob Sanders

Rob is a retired ceramics teacher, currently practicing his craft in Taos, NM.

Apolitical Aphorisms

Herewith a light-hearted look at at politicians and politics, salted  
with more than a couple of grains of truth
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If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. (Jay Leno, American entertainer)

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. (Henry Cate, VII, freelance writer)

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. (Aesop, story teller in ancient Greece)

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. (Nikita Krushchev,  Soviet leader in the mid-20th century)

​When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ​(Clarence Darrow, American lawyer who handled many high-profile cases in the late 1800's and early 1900's)

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. (Author unknown)

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, German-American author, editor, and organizer in the early 1900's)

I offer my opponents a bargain: If they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. (Adlai Stevenson, mid-1900's American political who ran for president on the Democratic ticket)

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. (Charles de Gaulle, French political leader who was a major figure in the French resistance of Nazi Germany during World War II)

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. (Doug Larson, syndicated columnist based in Wisconsin in the late 20th century)