In the tired hand of a dying man, Theodore Senior had written: “The ‘Machine politicians’ have shown their colors… I feel sorry for the country however as it shows the power of partisan politicians who...

Just like all people – just want to get on with their lives, and have families, and have a bit of fun and have a decent life. They are not interested in war – no...

It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.

Aos políticos: «menos liberalismo e mais carácter»; aos homens de letras: «menos eloquência e mais ideia»; aos cidadãos em geral: «menos progresso e mais moral».

Stop Duane Thomas!

In insisting that personal habit and political action be one and the same, absolutist moralizing limits the possibilities of both.

The main thing is, the constraints have come off style. What we are saying now is that the Revolution does not proceed in a pitiless, forward direction, its politics and its language becoming ever more...

At daybreak on the first day, thousands of Cambodians are already calmly waiting outside my polling station. They squat on the ground, silent and patient. We didn’t expect this at all. We thought they would...

Das Bild vom Wirtschaftsgeschehen als einem Wettlauf oder Wettkampf ist in seinen Details etwas verschwommen, doch es scheint, als hätte es als Wettlauf kein Ziel und deshalb kein natürliches Ende. Das einzige Ziel des Wettläufers...

We live in a world of contrast and it’s sad we are among people who can’t seem to grasp the differences surrounding them.

I believe in true love. But my opinion is tainted, because I also believe in Bigfoot, aliens, and in the existence of honest politicians.

It’s illegal to forcefully take money from people unless you’re the government. It’s illegal to take someone’s liberty, unless you’re the government. It’s illegal to kill someone, unless you’re the government. Private organizations can do...

As we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and others, we discern that they were all men who insisted upon being themselves and who refused to...

Every politician has a promising career. Unfortunately, most of them do not keep those promises.

You can’t understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.

not done” to say it… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in...

When the mechanic has to mend a watch he lets the wheels run out; but the living watchworks of the state have to be repaired while they act, and a wheel has to be exchanged...

I think we should keep politics out of church, and back in hell where it belongs.

I’m wearing my political mustache today. If you want to see it, you’ll find it on the pubic region of a lobbyist.

I wish somebody would combine tasers and dildos, and test the devices out on all the politicians in Washington DC. Well, all the politicians except Barney Frank, who’d actually derive pleasure from the experiment.

This is America. Every vote counts. Sometimes twice, if it helps me get elected.

I stayed up all night making love—to myself. That reminds me, I need to buy some more Jell-O and political biographies.

I had a dream about you. You were storing my brain in a pickle jar in the fridge, and I only discovered it when I went to garnish my hamburger. Mindless and hungry, I was...

That’s precisely why the majority of the population voted me into public office.

I’d kill every politician with a spoon, if I thought they had coffee for brains. But they’re simply not that intelligent, and I wish the people would wake up to that fact.

I have an erection like a congressman—it just won’t quit.

Politics has really turned a lot of decent men into heartless beings.

Politics is clearly a not so happening topic in our young blood. I could clearly see many students yawning. Some might have been discussing the new Shakira video amongst themselves, the one shown on MTV...

In many ways politics follows culture. As ancient Greek musician Damon of Athens said, ‘Show me the lyric of a nation and it matters not who writes its laws.’ Movies, television, books, magazines, the Internet,...

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

strong connections to Wisconsin’s progressive politics.

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage — the more the minimum, the better.

Americans, though apparently impressed by ghastly sentimentality and outrageous hypocrisy, are by nature much more politically cynical than Canadians. In their longer history they have had much more to be cynical about. They demand a...

In response to my question about how we might rein in the empire, he said, “That’s why I’m meeting with you. Only you in the United States can change it. Your government created this problem...

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don’t know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

Donald Rumsfeld. Love him or hate him, you’ve gotta admit: a lot of people hate him.

Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the...

The anarch is oriented to facts, not ideas. He fights alone, as a free man, and would never dream of sacrificing himself to having one inadequacy supplant another and a new regime triumph over the...

Jokes are many things. ‘Funny’ is only one of them.

Why should the constitution of a peaceful individual hold less weight than the constitution of a nation?

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.

It is horrible how people will use anything as a political monkey wrench and to hell with the country. (Julia Child to Avis DeVoto)

I walked up to Griz and poked him in the chest. “Let me make this perfectly clear to you. Though some might seek to make it appear otherwise, I am not a bride to be...

I think it’s hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they’re nineteen years old.

Just keep in mind,” Liaro said, “they’re not going to remember the words. They’ll remember how you made them feel. Make them feel something.

One of the most damaging myths of our time is that poor countries live in poverty because of a conspiracy of the rich countries, who arrange things so as to keep them underdeveloped, in order...

Governments are just large corporations, and large corporations are just small governments.