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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
I'm hoping that we're not getting to Second Amendment remedies. I hope the vote will be the cure for the Harry Reid problems.
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.
The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.
If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.
Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.
The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control.
Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.
Liberals can't just come out and say, they want to take more of our money, kill babies, and discriminate on the basis of race.
In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.
All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.
Maybe democrats will eventually turn on Obamacare when they realize you might need a photo I.D. to participate in the program.
It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.
We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.
Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.
Free market capitalism is far more than economic theory. It is the engine of social mobility-the highway to the American Dream.
He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today's voters in thirty seconds.
I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.
It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.
Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. "Don't bother us with politics," respond those who don't want to learn.
If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist, nowadays.
The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input.
No matter the good news anywhere else, these nuke-hungry rogue states will provide grounds for bad-mouthing Bush foreign policy.
We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history.
We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.
Politicians and corporations have always placed economic interests above moral interests. This is now hurting the entire planet.
The Conservative sees in the free market the harmony of interests and rules of cooperation that also underlie the civil society.
The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it
The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
Who could be luckier than to be paid fairly well, which to be honest MPs are, for pursuing their hobby.? That's what politics is.
You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela.
[democrats] have become the party of snobs. You have become the party of Americans who think they're better than other Americans.
One legged veterans will greet the dawn, and they're whistling marches as they mow the lawn, and the gargoyles on sit and grieve.
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.
It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.
The problem of abolishing want is not a problem in division, as the politicians so often aver; it is a problem of multiplication.
The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.
Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.