Politics

• Politics consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. — John Kenneth Galbraith
• No more good must be attempted than the public can bear. — Thomas Jefferson
• A politician can appear to have his nose to the grindstone while straddling a fence and keeping both ears to the ground. — Anonymous
• My grandmother's brain was dead, but her heart was still beating. It was the first time we ever had a Democrat in the family. — Emo Philips
• An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought. — Simon Cameron
• Conservatives are satisfied with present evils; liberals want to replace them with new ones. — Anonymous
• When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were. — John F. Kennedy
• Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. — George Burns
• Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. — Plato