Here's what some famous people had to say about those that choose politics as their vocation:
• 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. -- Anonymous
• "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 businesswoman
• 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)
• We jail petty thieves and elect the bigger thieves 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
• What happens if a politician drowns in a river? That is pollution. What happens if all of them drown? That is a solution .....!!!
-- Anonymous
• The best person to elect is no longer the lawyer, the doctor, the professor. The person that is in office,The person that holds a small elected position and wants a bigger one. Elect a Person that has worked all their life, is now retired, well educated, God Loving,and Hates Politicians.
• Election day is May 19th for the primary,and November 3rd for the general. Get out and vote!