"Richard Nixon is a no-good lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in" - Harry S Truman

"Jerry Ford is so dumb that he can't fart and chew gum at the same time" Lyndon B Johnson on Gerald Ford


"A triumph of the embalmer's art" - Gore Vidal on Ronald Reagan.

"His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death" - Abraham Lincoln on Stephen A Douglas

"He was a man of splendid abilities but utterly corrupt. Like rotten mackerel by moonlight, he shines and stinks"
John Randolph on Edward Livingstone

"A man who looks as if he has two flies fucking in his mouth" - Boris Yeltsin on his adviser Sergei Filatov

"She probably things Sinai is the plural of sinus" - Jonathan Aitken on Margaret Thatcher

"He is going around the country stirring up apathy" - William Whitelaw on Harold Wilson

"The Right Honourable and Learned Gentleman has twice crossed the floor of this house, each time leaving behind a trail of slime" - David Lloyd George on Sir John Simon

"When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit" - David Lloyd George

"Is there no beginning to your talents?" - Clive Anderson to Jeffrey Archer

"Whenever I want a good read I get one of Jeffrey's novels, and stand on it, so I can reach the good books" - Steven Norris.

"A systematic liar and a beggarly cheat; a swindler and a poltroon... He has committed every crime that does not require courage" - Benjamin Disraeli on Daniel O'Connell