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The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation.
In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.
He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.
I'm going to be pitching Andy Cohen on a new show for Bravo. We can call it 'Project Pantsuit.'
All politicians promise that which they cannot deliver. I just wish they did so less gleefully.
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
Obama hasn't been working to earn reelection, he's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour!
We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.
There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.
The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that
How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.
We have not come into politics with 'Badle ki Bhavna' but we have come with 'Badlav Ki Bhavna'.
Fascism isn't a libertarian doctrine! It just isn't, never will be and it can't be cast as one.
Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
My walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light, and I held firmly to what I felt was right.
It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.
Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.
Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it.
Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out
The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.
The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy.
On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.
Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.
The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.
George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.
It occurs to us that so-called "freedom fries" kill many more Americans than terrorists ever do.
It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.
You either get free stuff or you get freedom. You cannot have both and you need to make a choice.
I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.
It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.
There ain't no good guys, there ain't no bad guys, there's only you and me, and we just disagree.
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
She's a wonderful, wonderful person, and we're looking to a happy and wonderful night - ah, life.
Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.
It's me who is my enemy Me who beats me up Me who makes the monsters Me who strips my confidence.
We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
The most basic decision a modern politician must make is whether to be aggressive or conciliatory.