Politics is a funny old game. Ed Miliband did this. Boris Johnson did this. And Michael Gove did this. Politicians are more than capable of inducing a titter, whether they intend to or not. And now the best humorous political quotations are collected in one volume, in literary quotations legend Fred Metcalf's The Biteback Dictionary of Humorous Political Quotations, out now and available for £8.49 (RRP£9.99), and below are ten of my favourite quotes from the book... 1. A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard, 1927
2. There is nothing wrong with this country that a good election can’t fix. Richard Nixon, 1913–94, 37th President of the United States, 1969–74
3. Be thankful that we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for. Will Rogers
4. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been awarded the highest rank in the country’s military. The decision was praised by everyone from parliamentary leader Kim Jong Un to opposition leader Kim Jong Un. Conan O’Brien, 2012
5. President Obama took Michelle out to a steak restaurant for her birthday, marking the first time in months the words ‘Obama’ and ‘well done’ appeared in the same sentence. Jimmy Fallon, late-night talk-show host, 2012
6. Mr Wilson bores me with his fourteen points; why, God Almighty has only ten. Georges Clemenceau, 1841–1929, French statesman and Journalist
7. Everyone in public life should be arrested at least once. It’s an education. Alan Clark, 1928–99, Conservative MP and diarist
8. Anyone who eats pork rinds can’t be all good. Barbara Bush, on husband George
9. RT ‘@petertatchell: 800 million people have no safe, clean drinking water. Capitalism has failed the world.’ They do in capitalist countries. Tom Greeves, tweet, October 2011
10. Communism doesn’t really starve or execute that many people. Mainly it just bores them to death. P. J. O’Rourke, Holidays in Hell, 1989