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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.
Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?
Add one little bit on the end... Think of 'potato,' how's it spelled? You're right phonetically, but what else...? There ya go...alright!
The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
Whenever any group can vote in a bloc, and decide the outcome of elections, and it fails to do this, then that group is politically sick.
I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me
The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.
I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.
I have no belief in the system. So Sonny is perfectly at home (in Washington D.C.). Politicians are one step down below used-car salesmen.
If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.
Don't be deluded into believing that the titular heads of the networks control what appears on their networks. They all have better taste.
Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.
As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.
Congress should not be like the Super Bowl where you have to have one team that's going to win and another team that's going to be a loser.
The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.
I have certainly not got re-elected to retire, and I shall certainly start trying to push my influence in politics as far as I possibly can
Bush is quite vulnerable if the Democrats pick the right issues. So far, though, they've shown their usual tendency to go for the capillary.
Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
If you started a business when Christ was born and lost $1 million a day, it would still take another 700 years before you lost $1 trillion.
If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.
He wants Obama to do one thing, call him ... He said, if you can, Dennis, I don't want to do war. I don't want to do war. He said that to me.
The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it.
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
Increasingly, campaigns have become narcotics that blur our awareness of problems long enough to elect the lawmakers who must deal with them.
Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom
...nobody would think of asking the U.N. General Assembly what it thinks because it is dominated by nations with no power and less legitimacy
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.
Have you forgotten when those towers fell, we had neighbors still inside. And you say we shouldn't worry about Bin Laden, have you forgotten?
When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good
The state itself becomes more and more identified with the interests of those who run things than with the interests of the people in general.
No torture has yet been devised that could get a liberal to mention the poor, beleaguered Kurds dancing in the streets because Saddam is gone.
The fact is that a liberal Democrat doesn't want to talk about ideology because they don't want to explain publicly what they're really doing.
[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.
In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed.
My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.
Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.
My hobby (politics) has become my life. I have the greatest life imaginable. I think I have a greater life than anyone in the universe, in fact.
We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?
Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.
You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!
The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.