Wisdom Words
I think it’s about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we’ve been voting for boobs long enough. ~Clarie Sargent, Arizona senatorial candidateThe idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is… the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, Democratic National Convention, 18 August 1956
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. ~Leonard Bernstein, The New York Times, 30 October 1988
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato
Truth is not determined by majority vote. ~Doug Gwyn
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. ~John Quinton
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. ~John Kenneth Galbraith, New York Times, 8 October 1989
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. ~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952
I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government. ~Cissy Farenthold
There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen. ~Author Unknown
Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? ~Robert Orben
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 have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ~Charles de Gaulle
Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. ~Author Unknown
