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Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.
If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!
The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?
Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you
I've been to your mountains, I've been to your sea-side, and everywhere I went somebody's wanted a free ride.
He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.
America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.
...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.
India wants to help Nepal build highways (H), information highways (I) and transways - transmission lines (T).
The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.
What is the difference between a cactus and a conservative caucus? On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
I heard Dennis Kucinich say in a debate, 'When I'm president... and I just wanted to stop him and say, 'Dude.'
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.
Now if you shoot someone, sir, you can get off Scott free. It's the latest thing Mr. Lincoln, can you believe?
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.
The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.
...open-market democratic capitalism isn't the best system of government in the world, it just works the best.
...one is reminded that [John Kerry, D-MA] really just a better-looking Ted Kennedy, a richer Michael Dukakis.
They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
Maybe we should raise our voices, ask somebody why. But demonstrations are a drag, besides we're much too high.
America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.
Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.
I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.
Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary
Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound?
Concerned we're in a time where politicians can't even fake sincerity. Aren't they supposed to be good at that?
Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you.
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
Employee participation programs and employee ownership are important efforts to deal with powerlessness at work.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.
Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.
(T)he Left has moved so far to the left that this pro-choice, lesbian feminist is now considered a Right-Winger!
It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second one
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life.
The face of totalitarianism turned out to be a mask - obviously - but the face of Capitalism has no face at all.