Here's what others said over the years… Check out what Plato wrote a thousand years ago!
• 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 (1884-1933) American business woman
• 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 hang petty thieves and appoint 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 PM;
I'm beginning to believe it. ~ Quoted in the book, '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 .....!!! unknown