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All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill

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

Most bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson

I'm suffering a little bit from smoke exhilaration. - Archie Bunker

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke. - Groucho Marx

The Wright Brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility. - Dorothea Brande

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

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. - Edward Abbey

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. - Raisa M. Gorbachev

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

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

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. - Winston Churchill

Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself. - Mark Twain

I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin

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

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. - Theodor Adorno

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer. - Clement Freud

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid. - Will Rogers

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Mason took in enough cannabis smoke to allow a Lipan Apache manipulating a blanket over it to transmit the complete works of Tennyson. - Richard Condon

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle

I definitely believe marijuana helps with menstruation. Since I started smoking pot, my girlfriend’s period has become painless for me. - Randy Kagan

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