I often ask myself, ‘Who would Jesus vote for?’ Then I start to think that he wouldn’t vote at all; however, it would not be out of apathy or disinterest, but out of perfection and...

culture” driven societies; and gentlemen, that is not what the world can afford !!

Anarchists have a ‘bad name’ in the media, not because they can point to one indiscriminate massacre by anarchists–there have been none–but because the one thing holders of power fear is that they personally should...

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge.

People conjugate to the present; politics to other tenses. (Peuple conjugue au présent; – Politique aux autres temps.)

Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.

Authority is not a power, it is a responsibility.

I am suprised to a mad extent that people who claim to be intelligent and truth seeking go to church, hear their religious leaders say something, and without vetting it to a reasonable extent swallow...

Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics.

School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards — wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity — come from ignoring others and improving ourselves.

Corporate greed controls political will.

The prize won is only a token; the absolute prize is the positive change your work has made in the communities and across borders.

I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for...

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.

The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.

Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than before.

The North Korean capital, Pyongyang, is a city consecrated to the worship of a father-son dynasty. (I came to think of them, with their nuclear-family implications, as ‘Fat Man and Little Boy.’) And a river...

Knowledge is power but too much power tends to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

Here we introduce the nation’s first great communications monopolist, whose reign provides history’s first lesson in the power and peril of concentrated control over the flow of information. Western Union’s man was one Rutherford B....

Here one comes upon an all-important English trait: the respect for constituitionalism and legality, the belief in ‘the law’ as something above the state and above the individual, something which is cruel and stupid, of...

My hobbies include rubbing my nipples across a cheese grater, meeting cat ladies on Tinder, and voting for either Democrat or Republican every four years. You could say I am a torture enthusiast.

I want to have five or six wives, and a few dozen sheep, all for my pleasure. I should be a politician.

Citizens are starting not to excuse political candidates who have web sites that do nothing but throw virtual confetti.

There’s nothing special about politicians as people. Now as animals, they’d be extraordinary for their ability to be intelligent enough (barely) to be potty trained.

Business idea: Merge a billiard table with a golf course, and make the pockets as deep as a typical politician’s pants.

Don’t be alarmed by the flashing lights and the sirens you can’t see or hear. Just keep your blindfold on, your earplugs in, and keep driving way over the speed limit. You are in control...

I ordered an extra large handshake to go, but I had no idea it would be so greasy—or that it would leave a stain on my crotch. Ugh, politics!

A politician is a person who trades promises for power, and then trades the people’s trust for personal gain.

Bribery—it’s the way to get ahead. At least in politics.

The raindrops gathered on my windshield like prostitutes at a political convention, and I voted like I always vote—with my windshield wiper.

Bush violated FISA […] because he wanted to violate the law in order to establish the general ‘principle’ that he was not bound by the law, to show that he has the power to break...

The dangerous men were still asleep, their blades sheathed next to their beds. The really dangerous men had been up for hours, and their quills and ledgers were getting hard use.

What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of facing all these lies are...

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in fact a decisive benevolent dictator to push through the reforms required to get...

We must train our ‘future candidates’ on not only how to win elections but how to govern well.

In the old world, we tend to drift along, victims to our own ignorance of the fact, that we can have what we want in the New World.

Politics is merely war by other means.-an old Andorian saying

Wolves regularly attacked their rivals in power, so the idea of killing to gain position was neither alien nor repulsive to her. The use of assassins she had filed as yet another of the curious...

Renunciar a la libertad es renunciar a la condición de hombre.

The people who lead us are of us. We put them in office and we can take them out. America proves that the people can govern themselves.

When a man comes to your house with a bag full of money, he certainly has seen more in your backyard than in the bag.

Nous devions convaincre la communauté mondiale que la souveraineté devait désormais être considérée comme conditionnée à la responsabilité des États à assurer les droits de leur peuple – et donc être prise autant au sérieux que...

Being in the building with Sarah Palin that night is a transformative and oddly unsettling experience. It’s a little like having live cave-level access for the ripping-the-heart-out-with-the-bare-hands scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of...

If Jeb Bush gets elected, I’ll know that on my way back from overseas, I entered Biff Tannen’s parallel universe.

People bounce from voting Democrat to voting Republican, as both parties serve the interests of big business and big banking.

We torture for profit. You can’t get any lower than that.

Si un danseur a la possibilité d’entrer dans le jeu politique, il refusera ostensiblement toutes les négociations secrètes (qui sont depuis toujours le terrain de jeu de la vraie politique) en les dénonçant comme mensongères,...