A few brief thoughts on Politics and Politicians

Maybe it is because I am flying back to the DC area today or maybe it is because of the constant banal coverage of tonight's Presidential debates but for some curious reason I had an overwhelming desire to share a few of my favorite past quotes (in italics below with speakers in parentheses) concerning government, politicians, and in particularly American politics on my blog today before I head to the airport. Enjoy !!

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. (Groucho Marx)

America is still a government of the naive, by the naive, and for the naive. He who knows not know this nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of this country. ( Christopher Morley)

Anybody who wants the Presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. (David Broder)

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree, if you agree with him he is a statesman. (David Lloyd George)

I once cynically said of a politician "He'll double cross that bridge when he comes to it". (Oscar Levant)

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. (H.L. Mencken)

Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs. (P.J.O'Rourke)

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become more important in the eyes of more trivial men. 
(George Jean Nathan)

All politics is based on the indifference of the majority. (James Reston)

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. (Robert Louis Stevenson) 

And my favorite for the day and for this election.

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other. (Will Rogers)

Enjoy the debates, I won't be watching. I can't handle any reality shows.