Conservative Plant

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

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

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

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

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

She caught a touch of laryngosis from the smoke. - Archie Bunker

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

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

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

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative. - Kim Campbell

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

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

World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will

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

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. - Kin Hubbard

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. - Leo Rosten

Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are. - Subhash Bose

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

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

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. - Will Rogers

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician. - Eleanor Clift

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

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P.J. O'Rourke

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

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

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

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

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

Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating. - Richard Neville

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

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. - Bill Vaughan

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

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 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

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov