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Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.
By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American.
Here is one of the first rules of politics: it's not enough that I do well; I must also destroy my enemy.
Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.
There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.
Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.
The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.
I went to my Congressman and he said quote quote, I'd like to help you son, but you're too young to vote.
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.
When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
This is the Democratic paradox: You want so much to run America and yet you seem not so fond of Americans.
... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.
No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.
A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.
Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.
There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.
The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality.
That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.
Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best.
With all their attack ads, the President is just throwing away money...and he's pretty experienced at that.
Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative...except by execution.
There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society.
From Day One the very existence of [Camp Bravo] has been a popcorn hull in the tender gums of the hard left.
We felt that the employees would take a greater interest in work if they felt they were part of the company.
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.
[Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated.
There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.
Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.
Isn't the basis of a democracy to send somebody to Washington to bring something back for you? ... It isn't?
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.
[Virginia] has a very sizeable collection of democrats, liberals and moonbats. (Yes, they can be separated.)
At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say right on motherfuckers!
[T]he harm [Clinton AG] Reno did to American national security in the fight against terror was incalculable.
Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.
International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents.