First Shipment

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. - Benjamin Disraeli

Crime does not pay as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman

Voters want a fraud they can believe in. - Will Durst

A penny saved is a Congressional oversight. - Hal Luyah

Smoking cures weight problems... eventually. - Steven Wright

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. - William Shakespeare

Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan

Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre

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

I'd rather smoke crack than eat cheese from a tin. - Gwyneth Paltrow

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. - George Will

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. - Louis D. Brandeis

For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. - Bob Wells

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

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. - Lady Bird Johnson

I smoke 10 to 15 cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something. - George Burns

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. - William E. Simon

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger

I phoned my Dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter. - Steven Pearl

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else. - Henry Hazlitt

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. - P Chidambaram

A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson

A good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. - H L Mencken

Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers

So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

Animals are like little children a bit. They're simple. They don't have politics driving them. - Annabelle Sabloff

It was really strange to see all these apes standing around eating popcorn, smoking, wearing sunglasses. - Estella Warren

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. - Victor Hugo

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce

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

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

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.' - Ralph Nader

Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy