First Shipment

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

I am not a politician, but a soldier. - Idi Amin

The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it. - Unknown

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. - Fletcher Knebel

I'm not a politician. I've only got one face. - Brendan Behan

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate, VII

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. - Rudyard Kipling

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping. - Mark Twain

Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenel

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. - Woodrow Wilson

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. - Mark Twain

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. - Robert Frost

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. - Tex Guinan

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. - Laurence J Peter

Smoking kills. And if you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. - Brooke Shields

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton

It's our experience that political leaders don't always mean the opposite of what they say. - Abba Eban

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins

Democracy is very different in U.S. and A. from Kazakhstan. In America, woman can vote, but horse cannot! - Borat Sagdiyev

The largest party in America is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. - Robert Reich

Politics is the only business where doing nothing other than making the other guy look bad is an acceptable outcome. - Mark Warner

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. - Benjamin Franklin

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. - Ronald Reagan

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

The most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip. - Johnny Isakson

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. - John Quincy Adams

In Mexico, an air-conditioner is called a "politician" because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well. - Len Deighton

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. - Joe Biden

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. - Carl Sandburg

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. - Will Rogers

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi