I am wondering if that first quote was properly attributed to Jay Lenno,
or if it was then did Jay Lenno take it from someone else. There is a
book that was published, I think, during the 2000 election campaign. It
was, If the Gods Had wanted Us To Vote They Would Have Given Us
Candidates by Jim Hightower.
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On 3/17/2016 12:59 PM, R. E. Driscoll Sr wrote:
HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY!
*Subject:*: Truer words were never spoken
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*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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