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We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.
Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?
There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.
I made records for people who would buy them. No color, no ethnic, no political - I don't want that, never did.
The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest.
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.
It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.
I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.
We have got to mobilize people and rethink our commitment in terms of what our role is in the political process.
Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.
Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.
Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.
Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.
The war on drugs has been a social and political failure. We need to encourage sport and stop encouraging drugs.
My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes that they should be paying higher taxes.
We have reached the time when it is morally right to "shoot the bastards", but it is not yet practical to do so.
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.
When has a Democratic political activist been poisoned by the GOP, or vice versa? We are not the same as #Putin.
If we were real domestic terrorists, shoot, President Obama would be wanting to pal around with us, wouldn't he?
I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.
There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
Muslim immigrants like himself encounter prejudice here [in U.S.] but also find political and religious freedom.
Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.
Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.
The days of discriminating against religious institutions simply because they are religious must come to an end.
I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.
I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.
Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!
Preaching doom and gloom has been beneficial to the political class. They use it to gain more power and control.
Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.
You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
Bashar Assad has said many things. We will see in the near term whether he is serious about a political process.
From my point of view, being out is not about anything political. It's just because I can't be bothered to be in.
When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.
Unfortunately the niveau of political culture is not particularly high in Poland - a relic of the communist past.
Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.
The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it's hardly a traditional political party anymore.
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic.
Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.
Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.
Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.
The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.