Politicians Promises Quotes

• Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Inspirational, Funny, Trust

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Life, Witty, Art

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• Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after

  Emma Goldman

  Giving, Heaven, Promise

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.164, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you -- either by direct taxes, or by the cruelly indirect tax of inflation.

  John Wayne

  Government, Giving, Promise

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• The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

  William Lyon Mackenzie

  Keeping Promises, Yesterday, Kept Promises

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• Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Promise, Taxation, Election Time

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

  George Jean Nathan

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Political

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• The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Keeping Promises, Yesterday, Political

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• All politicians promise that which they cannot deliver. I just wish they did so less gleefully.

  Dov Davidoff

  Promise, Wish, Politics

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• No matter what politicians promise, Social Security reform will not change the fact that your money is taken from your paycheck and sent to Washington, where it will be spent.

  Ron Paul

  Taken, Promise, Reform

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