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We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.
Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.
And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
If the military contractors are out of Afghanistan, Karzai is out 15 minutes later.
After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.
More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.
Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.
The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.
Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other.
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.
How can we be isolating ourselves when it's 16 to 3 in NATO for what we want to do?
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
There's a lot of bleeding idiots in t'country and they deserve some representation.
People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
Let's never forget what made us great as a nation. It's not diversity, it's liberty.
I still recall the excitement & patriotic fervour in Kargil when Tiger Hill was won.
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
When politicians deny anything fiercely, there is a good chance that it will happen.
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
I am confident that Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana will open the doors of good politics.
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.
The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.
In politics, you have your word and your friends; go back on either and you're dead.
We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.
Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
Why, this fellow doesn't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.
I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want.
The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
A modern liberal is someone who doesn't care what you do, as long as it's compulsory.
They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray.
The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
I haven't seen it. I don't really need Michael Moore to tell me about September 11th.
I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
In the end, the tragedy of Harold Wilson was that you couldn't believe a word he said
If you want to be President, decide it at the age of five, and then live accordingly.
Nobody told me when I became a Democrat that that involved opposition to lower taxes.
It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents.
Poor Al Gore, global warming completely debunked, via the very Internet you invented.
As I have said, the best Bush strategy is to put Congress on TV as often as possible.