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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
Justice is the constant and eternal purpose that renders to each his due.
Is it possible to be anything in this country without being a politician?
The real art of governing consists, so far as possible, in doing nothing.
Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.
Capitalism has made it this way, old fashioned fascism will take it away.
The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.
Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.
The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.
It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
Too many women in too many countries speak the same language, of silence.
Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.
I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.
A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.
Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.
No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.
I don't like to dabble in anything I don't do well. I don't talk politics.
Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers.
Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.
The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
90% of the problem with marijuana is prohibition related, not use related.
I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.
This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.
I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind.
I won't yield to anyone about guns in our society. I know enough about it.
A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Rule number one: Never make anyone uncomfortable in your home-even morons.
Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.
Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.
Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.
Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.
Our leaders are the finest men, that's whey we elect them again and again.