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ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.
Today it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people.
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
Companionate Conservatism - Making the streets safer before people are kicked out onto them.
Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.
I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.
We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring 'em to make good.
This is such music to my ears. James Carville advocating a tax cut to stimulate the economy.
It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.
There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."
Freedom just around the corner for you, but with the truth so far off, what good will it do?
The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.
A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life.
The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it.
Cuba seems to have the same effect on US administrations as the full moon has on werewolves.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
We believe in Sarva Pantha Sambhav. We believe 'the truth is one, there are ways to reach it.
Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.
The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.
The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.
The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.
I can identify with steelworkers. I can identify with workers that have had a difficult time.
Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.
Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.
Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it.
You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
Like it or not, women are always subject to criticism if they show too much feeling in public.
War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.
I don't like my politicians entertaining me and I don't like my entertainers politicianing me.
I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.
The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.
I honestly believe I'd make one of the worst elected officials in the history of this country.
But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.
Politics is not how you vote, it is how you live. It is not how you choose, but how you think.
What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?
But revealing yourself as ignorant apparently gives one extraordinary credibility on the left.
What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?
I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.