12 Great Election Quotes

As Election Day nears read these little nuggets of wisdom from politicians, comedians and other influential people.

Take it from me--elections matter.
-- Al Gore

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
 -- George Eliot

I'm older than dirt, I've got more scars than Frankenstein, but I've learned a few things along the way.
-- John McCain

Washington, D.C., is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.
-- Dennis Miller

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad name.
-- Henry Kissinger

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
-- Robert Orben, humorist

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the cornfield.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
-- Bill Moyers

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.
-- Barack Obama

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government.
-- Mark Twain

The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.
-- Edward R. Murrow

From Reader's Digest - November 2008

 

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