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In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
Democrats haven't been this upset about an American engaging in free speech since Juanita Broaddrick opened her yap.
It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital.
Constitution is for the people, people are not for the constitution. Change it for the betterment of the common man.
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.
There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.
At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.
I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.
A Hamas terrorist, a UN aid worker and a journalist walked into a Gaza hookah bar. And no one could tell who was who.
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain't it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?
Why does Mosley always speak as though he were a feudal landlord abusing tenants who are in arrears with their rent ?
Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.
The big problem is to find suitable hats. I don't care for them all that much, but you have to wear them in politics.
It's a very valuable function and requirement that you're performing, so have a great day and keep a stiff upper lip.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Sharper than a serpents tongue, tighter than a bongo drum, quicker than a one night stand, slicker than a mambo band.
Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.
Put them in position to make their wishes come true, so they can have multiple accounts that gain interest over night.
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
But this is the kind of ass-clownery that stems from the fact that all philosophy looks weird when you don't have one.
A nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets.
In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.
We are completely saddled and bridled, and... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide.
There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.
Republicans believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs. The Democrats believe in more welfare.
If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.
So the starting point and the basis of their liberal wails of anguish always and always is guilt. Guilt, guilt, guilt.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Few concepts are as basic as the role of workers in our economic structure and their participation in equity ownership.
Seriously, he is just a voice on the radio, unlike the ones in your head, you don't have to do what he tells you to do.
Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.
Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.
All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.
guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.
I've told you before and I'll tell you again. The strong survive and the weak disappear. We do not intend to disappear.
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
Watergate is not the sort of issue that changes the vote. I don't know anyone who has changed their vote because of it.
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.