<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p><span style="font-size:large"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">The problem with political jokes is they get elected.   ~Henry Cate, VII~</span><u></u><u></u></b></span></p></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p style="line-height:11.35pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:large"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></b></span></p></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p style="line-height:11.35pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:large">We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.  ~Aesop~</span></span><u></u><u></u></b></p></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p style="line-height:11.35pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span><u></u><u></u></b></p></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p style="line-height:11.35pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:large"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these State of the Union speeches, there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.   ~Will Rogers~</span><u></u><u></u></b></span></p></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p style="line-height:11.35pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:large"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></b></span></p></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p style="line-height:11.35pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:large"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ~Nikita Khrushchev~</span><u></u><u></u></b></span></p></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p style="line-height:11.35pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:large"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></b></span></p></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p style="line-height:11.35pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:large"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ~Clarence Darrow~</span><u></u><u></u></b></span></p></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p style="line-height:11.35pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:large"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></b></span></p></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p style="line-height:11.35pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:large"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. ~Author unknown~</span><u></u><u></u></b></span></p></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p style="line-height:11.35pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:large"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></b></span></p></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p style="line-height:11.35pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:large"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. ~John Quinton~</span><u></u><u></u></b></span></p></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p style="line-height:11.35pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:large"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></b></span></p></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p style="line-height:11.35pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:large">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~</span></span><u></u><u></u></b></p></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p style="line-height:11.35pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:large"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></b></span></p></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p style="line-height:11.35pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:large"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">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~</span><u></u><u></u></b></span></p></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p style="line-height:11.35pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:large"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></b></span></p></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p style="line-height:11.35pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:large"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">A politician is a fellow who will lay down YOUR life for his country.  ~ Tex Guinan~</span><u></u><u></u></b></span></p></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p style="line-height:11.35pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:large"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></b></span></p></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p style="line-height:11.35pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:large"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.  ~Charles de Gaulle~</span><u></u><u></u></b></span></p></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p style="line-height:11.35pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="fon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