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,...

Yes, we have to seek redemption! Redemption from the divisive politics based on caste and religion, redemption from the corruption which is eating our lives like termites, redemption from misery of poverty, redemption from the...

War is Mass Murder, Conscription is Slavery, Taxation is Robbery.

He was a consummate politician– which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.

Pe langă familie, zmeii au dezvoltat instituţii politice, juridice şi administrative în momentul în care au simţit nevoia unui duşman comun care să-i ţină uniţi.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden of Eden, everybody just got here. And, except for the Garden of Eden, there were...

[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it.

the Democratic Party had failed (in 1983) ‘to remember waht got us this far and how we got here — moral indignation, decent instincts, a sense of shared sacrifice and mutual responsibility, and a set...

Let me tell you who those bad guys are. They’re us. WE BE BAD. We’re the baddest-assed sons of bitches that ever jogged in Reeboks. We’re three-quarters grizzly bear and two-thirds car wreck and descended...

The internet has become a political space. I think that is one of the most important developments in the past decade.

Nations do not plunge at once into ruin – governments do not change suddenly – the causes which bring about the final blow, are scarcely perceptible in the beginning; but they increase in numbers, and...

Please do not think that I am accusing socialists of insincerity or that I wish to hold them up to scorn either as bad democrats or as unprincipled schemers and opportunists. I fully believe, in...

The fate of the Right in the late modern age is to destroy what remains of the past in a vain attempt to recover it.

You know your vote doesn’t count, but you go through the motions, because it’s been drummed into your head that you might be the one person who makes a difference.

Whether for good or for bad, the Iran that ultimately rises out of the ashes of last summer’s uprising will be unlike the Iran we know today, and for that we can thank the Green...

Los habitantes de países más o menos ricos comemos al revés de como comió la enorme mayoría de la humanidad desde el principio de los tiempos. Es un cambio cultural radical, y no parece que...

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.”[Shrub Flubs His Dub, The Nation, June 18, 2001]

If the spirit of their intercourse were still the same after their coming together as it had been when they were living apart,’ Aristotle writes, their association can’t really be considered a polis, or political...

In politics, reality and appearance are of equal importance. You cannot attend to one and neglect the other. A man must determine both what he is, and what others believe him to be.

It seems that Russia today—dominated by, and accustomed to, autocracy and empire, and lacking strong civic institutions especially after the shattering of its society by the Bolshevik Terror—is destined to be ruled by self-promoting cliques...

People and politics are a lot like think the wind. Depending on which way the wind is blowing either makes us sway left or right. Only when the winds are calm can we grow,straight and...

If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant pastSecurity in human systems we’re told will always always lastEmotions are the sail and blind faith is the mastWithout the breath of real freedom we’re...