Some women will spread a lie faster and wider than they’d spread their legs. These women are worse than whores. These women are politicians.

Politics is all about showing you have integrity—and hiding the fact that you really don’t have any.

When I was 18 I got bitten by a snake, and since then I have refused to vote for either a Republican or a Democrat.

Make your vote count. Be the guy responsible for counting and tallying all the votes.

Thor again tutored me in the seventh grade, when I was learning Algebra. Algebra was quite an experience for me. Thor spent countless hours with me, because it was very hard for me to grasp...

I want to be a politician because I like the idea of public service. Come on, who wouldn’t want all the people at their service? I’d get to live like a king, only I’d be...

I love public speakers who give moving speeches—particularly if they bring boxes, packing tape, and dollies. The last local politician I heard speak was so moving that I took up residence in a new county.

I’m picketing pickpockets, because I hate politicians.

I miss the smell of clown in the morning. I need to be a volunteer on another political campaign.

I didn’t buy the wart remover, because I didn’t want my wart removed—just relocated, to Washington DC, with the rest of the warts in this country.

Forgoing privacy in a quest for absolute safety is as harmful to a healthy psyche and life of an individual as it is to a healthy political culture. For the individual, safety first means a...

The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak.

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

Life is like a boxing match, it seems, society has not been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of crime

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Today everybody is talking about the fact that we live in one world; because of globalization, we are all part of the same planet. They talk that way, but do they mean it? We should...

I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism.

You don’t get to be the president of anything if you have bad manners.

In his 1907 retirement address, Joseph Pulitzer urged his successors to always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with...

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

Standing in the shadow of the most prodigious political and fund-raising apparatus the Democratic Party had ever seen, [Biden] felt like a stranger to it, as if he’d walked into an opulent wedding where he...

If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. “I’m from the government and I’m...

When they ask me to become president of the United States I’m going to say, “Except for Washington D.C.

I was naked and he had more possessions than he could use all at once. I was the proletarian, he was the capitalist, and my relations to him were reduced to the basic proposition of...

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.

…to avoid huge medical costs, I strongly urge you not to get sick.

It is an adherent condition of human affairs that no intention, however sincere, of protecting the interests of others can make it safe or salutary to tie up their own hands. Still more obviously true...

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

I would say that since the war, our methods-out and those of the opposition-have become much the same. I mean you can’t be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government’s ‘policy’ is benevolent,...

When he talked politcis, it was with me, or my sister, pointing a steady and patient finger at us, saying, “I don’t care about left or right. It’s all nonsense. All I ask of you...

Look at the tyranny of party– at what is called party allegiance, party loyalty– a snare invented by designing men for selfish purposes– and which turns voters into chattels, slaves, rabbits; and all the while,...

A woman’s not a woman till the pills wear off.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

quoting from Neil Kinnock, running against Thatcher in 1987:Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Why is Glenys the first woman in her family in...

Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were as useful as a bishop’s mire it would be rejected. Once...

Politicians sre the same all over.They promise to build bridges, even where there are no rivers.

Mankind in the aggregate I have found to be brutish, ignorant and unkind, whether those qualities were covered by the coarse tunic of the peasant of the white and purple toga of a senator. And...

Appearance tyrannizes over truth.

Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

A country is at a worse crisis when its people do not understand its politics.

People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.

God is Love,” that God created the universe out of love. The source of God’s Creation is love, and our relationship to the possibility of meaning within this created world is in and through love....

He’s doing what a 6-year-old boy is supposed to do, away from the cameras, away from politics, back being a child.

When bad news sells, money politics buys.

The worst kind of tyrant is one that is righteously wrong

Politics is a delicate business. I understand that well. But if a party is not willing to stand up for what is right, does it deserve to win back control of the government?

The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his “ideas” almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture, and his yet more celebrated...