My Three Favorite Political Proverbs

[Art]

No ones life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session. (Gideon Tucker, also attributed to Mark Twain)

Giving money and power to a politician is like giving whiskey and car keys to a teenage boy. (P.J. O'Rourke)

A fool and his money are soon elected. (Will Rogers)

[rayg]

All great ones..Lol

[togor]

They did once try to limit how much politicians could feed from the campaign trough, but politicians had second thoughts and got a big assist from a Supreme Court decision that the people cannot have an uncorrupt legislature, no matter how bad they want one. So here we are.

[Vern Humphrey]

"Seek not to sit in the seat of the Mighty ...
that's how you get pinworms."

"Many problems stem from the fact that most of our leaders have two hands ... but only one pecker."

HERBIVORE'S CAMPAIGN SLOGAN
"A chicken in every pot.
A car in every garage.
A lawyer on every lamp post."

"We have created a system that fills the highest leadership positions with people who have all the qualifications of a good men's room attendant."

"If the government had sense enough to get us out of the mess we're in, it wouldn't have got us into it in the first place."

"The government tells us we're under-taxed ...
that's like the Mafia telling us we're under-victimized."

"Why is it against the law to shoot politicians?
They're not an endangered species."

"We're lucky to have the men we do in congress ...
imagine what the highways would be like if they all had to make their livings as truck drivers!"

"Inefficiency in government isn't all bad ...
if the bastards were competent, they'd screw us twice as much."

"Eighty-four cents of every tax dollar goes in direct payments to somebody else ...
and the son of a bitch don't even come around and cut the grass!"

"The chief aim of an oppressed minority is to become an oppressive majority."

"It used to be 'Government of the people, by the people, for the people' ...
how did it turn into 'Government of anyone who's dumb enough to work, by a bunch of crooks, for a bunch of lazy layabouts'?"

"A congressman is someone who makes you believe he's feeding you caviar ... while he's pounding sand up your ass."

[jjrothWA]

Heard this on the Friday night Opry from the Ryman about four weeks ago.

The Comedian remarks about speaking with his grandfather.
He asked Grandfather "\: How many terms politician should serve?

Grandfather replied ; Two, the one elected to serve and the second in prison.