Let him then have powers commensurate with his utmost possible need, only let him be held strictly responsible for the exercise of them. Any other course would be injustice as well as bad policy

We’re a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it’s misdirected.

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

…Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to lead as best you can, following the dictates of your conscience. You must be true....

In the evening [the Iraqi interim governor of Maysan province] asked me for fifty dollars to repair his windows, which had been destroyed in a recent demonstration. Although he was the governor, his salary was...

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

It’s easy to see why conservatives would be salivating at the thought of a Hillary primary challenge. Presidents who face serious primary challenges—Ford, Carter, Bush I—almost always lose. The last president who lost reelection without...

For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate’er is best administered is best.

not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to...

Do you realize,’ Dr. Ramzi says, smiling broadly, ‘when you speak of a political programme, that your programme now is the same that Mahmoud Sami Al-Baroudi’s government tried to establish more than a hundred years...

Revolutions are infinite.

Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.

Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided...

Then all at once our personal and political quarrels were made very abruptly to converge. In the special edition of the London Review of Books published to mark the events of September 11, 2001, Edward...

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

I have tried to write about politics in an allusive manner that draws upon other interests and to approach literature and criticism without ignoring the political dimension. Even if I have failed in this synthesis,...

Governments and entire planets are important, Threepio. But when you sift everything down, they’re all just made of people.

Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.

If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.

immaculate conception” theory of crises abroad. That is, we believe we are essentially out there, just minding our own business, trying to help make the world right, only to be endlessly faced with a series...

Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you.

How many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the...

The Angel (in Joshua) declared that he was born leader and indicated that he was in the army of the Lord. The Lord was the commander of that angel, and he is our commander still....

There’s a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the shaft of an axe when you take it into your hand. You can...

[On political correctness:] Any intended message mattered less than the received message, and every received message could be interpreted in whatever way the receiver wanted.

People don’t have the imagination to understand politicians. People are too innocent

I often think about a life of crime. But alas, politics isn’t for me.

The American people are fed up…with political posturing.’ True, but also an example of political posturing.

A nugget of wisdom is more valuable than a nugget of gold—and considerably harder to pan out of a river. I’ll be 33 in March, and all I’ve found so far is fool’s gold. Still,...

I planted a plastic plant, but nothing grew but political hope. I watered it with the tears of the voters.

With anal sex, I suggest you start gently. Find a slender midget. Or a member of Congress.

Social change doesn’t happen overnight: It takes decades for momentum to build and for the once-radical edge to become mainstream.

Religious politics is the bent of those who push “The Myth of the Christian Nation” or “Muslim Supremicism” everywhere! ~ © gfp ’42™

The country is dying cause of an lack of men, not a lack of programms.

Quarterbacks shouldn’t leave the pocket, because that’s where the money is. Every politician knows this.

A burial should be more than a fire pit, arena seating, and a squirming politician strapped to a pile of wood. There should also be marshmallows.

The president spends most of his time playing golf and vacationing. But the times he’s away from the office are the times he’s most valuable to our country.

Se uma planta não pode viver de acordo com sua natureza, ela morre. O mesmo ocorre com um homem.

My brakes sound like my horn, and my car’s bumper is bumpy enough to be brail. My ideal reader would be a speed-reading blind politician I didn’t vote for.

I say eek to Zeke Ekez, the imaginary palindrome politician of my dreams. He looks like me, talks like me, and thinks like me, but I won’t vote for him, because I always vote for...

I had a dream about you. We were two lovers disguised as librarians. We met in the non-fiction section, and that’s the truth. Or at least that’s what we told your parents. They didn’t need...

I’m not the pervert you think I am. No, I’m an entirely different pervert. Keep cardboard tubes away from me. (I should be a politician.)

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.

I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period. We are not a religious people, but we are a nation...

A number I’d love to know: the % of those now saying ‘we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran’ who will support one if Obama does it.

I know you don’t think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense. A child born mid-flight has no nation. I can pull on either culture,...

collecting secrets was and is crucial to solving foreign policy puzzles.

✡ Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment of religion.