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A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

A penny saved is a Congressional oversight. - Hal Luyah

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

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen

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

Smoking means always having to say you're sorry. - Tom Ferguson

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. - Will Rogers

Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown

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

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck

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

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think. - Milton Berle

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

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

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. - Reinhold Niebuhr

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

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

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - Bertrand Russell

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

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. - Harry S Truman

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. - Woody Allen

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. - George Bernard Shaw

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

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times. - Mark Twain

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

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev

The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy. - Charles J Hitch

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. - Clare Boothe Luce

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

Taxpayer - someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan

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

It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

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