As a member of the National Speakers Association, I was pleased to make a personal acquaintance with Charlie “Tremendous” Jones at one of our meetings. He was a large speaking presence. During his presentation he actually picked on me!

Charlie has written several quote books as he has come up with many of his own pithy sayings. This one about politics made me laugh: “Politics defined: poly is a Greek word meaning ‘many’ and tics are little bloodsuckers.”

Johann Von Goethe, a German writer (I studied him as I majored in German in college) described it thus: “In politics as on the sick bed people toss from one side to the other, thinking they will be more comfortable.”

President Dwight D. Eisenhower said: “Politics should be the part time profession of every citizen.”

And President Ronald Reagan said it best: “Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.”

I have to ask, “isn’t it about time we elected somebody other that a politician?”

As a member of the National Speakers Association, I was pleased to make a personal acquaintance with Charlie “Tremendous” Jones at one of our meetings. He was a large speaking presence. During his presentation he actually picked on me!

Charlie has written several quote books as he has come up with many of his own pithy sayings. This one about politics made me laugh: “Politics defined: poly is a Greek word meaning ‘many’ and tics are little bloodsuckers.”

Johann Von Goethe, a German writer (I studied him as I majored in German in college) described it thus: “In politics as on the sick bed people toss from one side to the other, thinking they will be more comfortable.”

President Dwight D. Eisenhower said: “Politics should be the part time profession of every citizen.”

And President Ronald Reagan said it best: “Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.”

I have to ask, “isn’t it about time we elected somebody other than a politician?”