Political advice is a bit like your average Christmas fruitcake: something everyone gives and no one wants.

All political spendings for purposes beyond the protection of life and property are a snare and a delusion.

There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

The fact that Hitler was a political genius unmasks the nature of politics in general as no other fact can.

I only debate with serious political youth formations. Not a group of the racist Helen Zille's garden boys.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat.

I know some very political people who rap, and they say very political things and they'll never get a deal.

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.

The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong

The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.

The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism.

Let others make war, you happy Austria marry, for kingdoms given to others by Mars, Venus will give to you.

Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties.

He slept more than any other president, whether by day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.

We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.

Never in the history of the world has there been a situation so bad that the government can't make it worse.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.

An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.

Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.

the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before.

The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.

Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.

The Liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

The difference between congressmen and drunken sailors is that drunken sailors are spending their own money.

I think certainly everybody is aware of the potential for just the very inflamed political mood in America .

I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.

In reality, finding a way to raise taxes may well be the central political problem facing the United States.

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.

I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.

The President's political travel is going to get blamed (and probably rightly) for a share of this downturn.

Concerning politics: "The American media is like a watchdog who has developed an affection for the burglar."

We believe it is the duty of the vanguard political movement which brings change to educate people's outlook

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