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There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.
I am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia...The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these days.
"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."
Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.
A monkey was the President, though maybe not the first. And there was peace and harmony throughout the universe.
We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
Nobody's madder than me about the website not working as well as it should, which means it's going to get fixed.
Like the archers of Agincourt, John O'Neal and the 254 Swiftboat Veterans took down their own haughty Frenchman.
We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.
The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.
The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.
The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him.
RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.
You kill three people, they call you a murderer. You kill a million people, they call you a conqueror. Go figure.
Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.
Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist deficit hawk.
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.
Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.
We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.
We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.
It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
If you read angry political blogs, substitute Obama with my daddy and you'll usually learn a lot about the author.
Today a newcomer to the state is automatically eligible for our many aid programs the moment he crosses the border.
I love this country for several reasons, not the least of which is that I know I'm allowed to hate it if I want to.
I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
There is a law in each well-ordered nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.
Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
...simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner.
The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.
The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.
What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.
I must express my protest against continually increasing the debt without taking positive steps to slow its growth.
A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
At times, the most dangerous politicians have been those impelled by dreams and ideals, rather than basic realities.
Take whatever position you want, but do take a position, because once you do, ample money awaits you on either side.
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.