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Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno

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

Love is an exploding cigar that you willingly smoke. - Lynda Barry

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

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

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

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

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. - James Reston

Commitments the voters don’t know about can't hurt you. - Ogden Nash

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. - Mark Twain

It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. - Will Rogers

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

Everyone wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. - Werner Finck

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. - Will Rogers

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

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. - Malcolm de Chazal

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. - Maggie Gallagher

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. - Cal Thomas

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

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

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot. - Sergey Galitsky

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

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay? It's, like, incredible. - Donald Trump

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. - John W. Gardner

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

She's not a pothead. That thing on her neck is a vase. And anyway, I'm all for legalization. After all, why should surrealism be illegal? - Jarod Kintz