We want people to represent us in politics—and in love and economics too. When people represent us fully, they are ourselves and are not ourselves. When an object is simultaneously the same as and different...

I bowl like I masturbate: with two hands. I should run for Congress.

Spaghetti for brains albino idea weasel.”And that was when I stabbed her with a piece of garlic toast. It seemed like the most appropriate response. The police didn’t seem to agree, and I could tell...

What you’d call stealing, I’d call a mistake. Or, if I were a politician, I’d call it an opportunity, and my privilege.

Some people hide behind rules and regulations to deliver sadistic punishments, as if they don’t secretly delight in causing pain and abusing their power.

Awesome is a substance I sell in times of peace. And despair. It’s slippery and smells like freedom, so do not attempt to apply it anally. That advice is mostly directed at politicians.

The best place to store your weapons safely is in your enemy’s hands. It is in your best interest to be defenseless while your rulers have all the weapons. After all, the government knows what’s...

I had a dream about you. I was at your family reunion, and your grandma was chugging the hunch punch with all the confidence of a mature woman in diapers. I was on Wheelchair Patrol,...

It’s only a problem until you ignore it. Come on, that’s Politics 101.

SETI scans the stars searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, which pretty much rules out them ever finding an alien politician.

Vicharvanu ae chhe ke je nagarikdharmana kanuno ghade chhe, na to aatli adalati thothabaji pachhi aemana ghana khara nagarik banya chhe, na to aene chutnara tola khara aarth ma rashtriya nagrik banya chhe. Nagarik chhodo...

Nothing is easier to achieve than full employment, once it is divorced from the goal of full production and taken as an end in itself

Within Hobbes’ depiction of the motives for conflict. . . there is a problematic in which the grave threat that human beings pose to other human beings is not constituted simply by the structures of...

Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things…” she held up four big-knuckled fingers. “…the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and...

The real woman does not want to be equal but different.

We should resolve now that the health of this nation is a national concern; that financial barriers in the way of attaining health shall be removed; that the health of all it’s citizens deserves the...

Other nations merely change governments as a lady changes dancing partners: Canada contrives to fall in a dead faint every time the music stops.

Wer Feind ist, ist keine rechtliche, sondern eine politische Frage.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people...

The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the...

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

We must, together as a nation, stop watching Fox.

No, I don’t admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius’s activity in the world, of which the great man is only the poor necessary tool, only, so to speak,...

At this point in history, our society tends to elevate and reward the specialist…This concentrated focus has brought some benefits…It may also be a modern malady. Specialization, when taken too far and allowed to define...

I think I learned that his earnestness didn’t diminish his intellectual capacity. I often think politics is a blender that purees everything, but he’s not pureed.

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

When a politician spends a million on himself, we rally and call him a thief. But when a cardinal spends the same amount on his attire, we kneel down and kiss his hand.

It’s not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it’s your friends

Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little People, it is with disdain and contempt.

If you need a reason to get involved in world politics, all you need to do is watch a playground of children for awhile. Imagine a world that happy and free all the time, that...

What counted was not the facts but the fears.

People don’t like him (John Poindexter) for the same reason they don’t like me…If you get things done in this bureaucracy you step on toes.

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong...

Television hols up a mirror to the true nature of family life today. For the first time people see themselves reflected and refracted within its curved glass screen: helping them to define who the are...

But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common…

Jules turned to her, incredulous. ‘Do you socialize with Republicans?'”‘It happens, Jules.

Social conservatism and neoconservatism have revived authoritarian conservatism, and not for the better of conservatism or American democracy. True conservatism is cautious and prudent. Authoritarianism is rash and radical. American democracy has benefited from true...

A monarch butterfly has top brand recognition, an excellent recall quotient, and highly favorable demographics. Associate your candidate with famous lepidoptera, and use these filmed spots early and often.

We, the Hawaiian people, who are born from the union of Papahanaumoku and Wakea, earth mother and sky father, and who have lived in these islands for over 100 generations, will always have the moral...

Let us applaud the howls of the ignorant extremists as we stand on a knife-edge, not glad, but in acknowledgement of the bad, sad, mad gifts that the regime continue to offer us.

the shield behind which politics take place.

Europeans have sometimes been beguiled by a despotism that comes concealed in the seductive form of an ideal – as it did in the cases of Hitler and Stalin. This fact may remind us that...

The timing and scope of the FDA warning letter was as much about the politics at the FDA and mandate for systemic change than it was about Boston Scientific.

Well, I’m not sure the New York Times was consciously trying to trivialise me, but the effect of it is to put everything in the same category as the gossip you read in the magazines...

What society judged was not the severity of the disease but the social acceptability of the individuals affected with it…

With each passing day, I become more and more convinced that the greatest threat to American freedom is the United States government.

It takes a pillage.

Every mother want her children to be like their father; except politicians

The staunchest conservatives advocate a range of changes which differ in specifics, rather than in number or magnitude, from the changes advocated by those considered liberal…change, as such, is simply not a controversial issue. Yet...