Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations

B'funny, striking, thought-provoking and incisive ... will appeal to those browsing through it as least as much as to those who wish to use it as a work of reference'

Observer

`Completely captures the comic aspect of politics while still presenting some serious messages ... It is hard to stop browsing once you start'

Daily Mail

`This reader devoured it from cover to cover, discovering ... some excellent and unfamiliar quotations ... it fills a serious gap.'

Financial Times

`Marshalled with wit and meticulous attribution of sources'

Guardian

'full of good one-liners'

Sunday Telegraph

This lively and illuminating dictionary presents a vintage crop of over 4,000 quotations reflecting every facet of political life. Examples range from the pivotal and momentous to the rhetorical, the sincere, the bemused, the tongue-in-cheek, and the downright rude, with memorable words from the
old hands as well as from contemporary politicians.

'Politics is just like showbusiness, you have a hell of an opening, coast for a while and then have a hell of a close.'

Ronald Reagan

'A big cat detained briefly in a poodle parlour, sharpening her claws on the velvet.'

Matthew Parris of Lady Thatcher in the House of Lords