Just in time for the new presidential campaign, this well-edited little book offers insights, commentary, and humor on all matters political. Edited by a former U.S. Foreign Service diplomat, it contains the wisdom and quips of statesmen, philosophers, foreign leaders, poets, lawyers, comedians, and many others, some of them still living, others who have long since uttered their last words of political rhetoric. Those quoted include: *Harry S Truman*Colin Powell*Benjamin Disraeli*Frederick Douglass*Indira Gandhi*Franklin D. Roosevelt*Margaret Thatcher* Mao Tse-Tung*George Orwell*Eleanor Roosevelt*Joseph Stalin*Booker T. Washington*Mario Cuomo*Woodrow Wilson*George Burns*John F. Kennedy*Eldridge Cleaver*Dwight D. Eisenhower*David Brinkley*Winston Churchill*Thomas Jefferson* Nikita Khrushchev *Abraham Lincoln*Ronald Reagan*Adlai Stevenson*Boris Yeltsin*Aristotle*Woody Allen*H. L. Mencken*Carl Sandberg**Al Capone*George Bernard Shaw*Frank Zappa*Henrik Ibsen*James Thurber*Charles Dickens*George W. Bush**Groucho Marx*Bertrand Russell*Henry David Thoreau* The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often and in the loudest voice. --Theodore Roosevelt To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making. --Otto von Birsmarck If you must break the law, do it to seize power; in all other cases observe it. --Julius Caesar Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair. --George Burns Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him. --Charles de Gaulle The broad mass of a nation . . . will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one. --Adolf Hitler Power is the great aphrodisiac. --Henry Kissinger A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. --Robert Frost Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.