Political humor from SB Ross

[As all Silverbacks know, I don’t allow politics in The Jungle. I do allow political humor, however, because, can anything be bad that makes you laugh? I’m very willing to include some conservative humor. Anyone? SB SM]

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
 
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
 
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
John Quinton~
  
Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.
Author unknown
 
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan
 
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, 1952
 
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
Tex Guinan
 
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson
 
We’d all like to vote for the best man, but he’s never a candidate.
Kin Hubbard

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