It would be great if all the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow.

There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.

Well, I did say we'll put it out and we'll put it out when we can. But I don't know what we can put out or when we can put it out.

Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.

I oppose registration for the draft... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom.

The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.

The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics

the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.

The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there.

You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Diplomacy has more to do with (credible) threats than with sweet reason. And threats from America are a lot more credible, nowadays.

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.

They let dangerous men out of prison now, yes sir, I'm afraid it's so. Cause they're over crowded and it was only his fifth offense.

Someone's looking for a lead, in his duty to a king or creed. Protecting what he feels is right, fights against wrong with his life.

The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It's only in the amount where the Republicans excel.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

The only truly shocking thing about last Tuesday's election is that the Democrats didn't do far worse, or as badly as they deserved.

And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.

The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.

He loves power. He loves control because others, you know, dad and stuff like that, but he's just a great guy. He's just a great guy.

PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.

[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

There was plenty of evidence that Saddam had nuclear weapons, by the way. That is not in dispute. There is plenty of evidence of that.

The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.

If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

I'm old enuf to remember when Dems considered a UN resolution and an actual coalition nothing more than Bushy McHitler going it alone.

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.

A bullet had found him, his blood ran out as he cried. No money could save him, so he laid down and died. Ooh, what a lucky man he was.

Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?

I probably had 150 meetings with Trent Lott. He has said exactly as many racist things to me as Bill Clinton has, which is to say zero.

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

For some reason I get advertised when I travel as a political comedian, which I'm not. Sometimes I talk about it and sometimes I don't.

Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design.

Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths

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