It was Bill Clinton who once pithily captured the contrast between the two parties when it came to selecting a presidential standard-bearer: “Democrats want to fall in love; Republicans just fall in line.

If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.

After eighteen long months covering this dreary business, the whole campaign appears in my mind’s eye as one long, protracted scratch-fight over Internet-fueled nonsense.

From the comfort of distance, [Non resident Indians and Kashmiris] financially and emotionally support ideologies whose consequence they don’t have to face. They are not just a nuisance. As a collective they are dangerous. When...

Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

I am trying to create awareness of the true concept of democracy.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I’ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.”(Larry King Live, May 11, 2009)

The speaker calls for a careful examination of Christ’s principle of turning the other cheek before we use it as a demand or excuse for total personal pacifism. After all, when literally struck on the...

I have promised not to interfere in politics and I have not said anything about many things which were done wrong.

Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for — annually, not oftener — if they had...

Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems.

Republican or Democrat, this nation’s affluent urban and suburban classes understand their bread is buttered on the corporate side. The primary difference between the two parties is that the Republicans pretty much admit that they...

Los Pueblos tienen los Gobiernos que se merecen.

It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.

My dad will win, I silently countered, even as I smiled sweetly. I couldn’t wait to spike the ball right through her block, no matter how tall she was. In health class we’d learned that...

I think I have done well, though I am abandoned, with the curse of Cain upon me.

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)

The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you’ve just told them.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver’s license age than at voting age.

What is the golden role? Some say it is make a ton of money. Some say it’s have a career you can brag about. I say it’s Leave this world better then you found it.

The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one’s own mind and heart.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

I wish it were different. I wish that we privileged knowledge in politicians, that the ones who know things didn’t have to hide it behind brown pants, and that the know-not-enoughs were laughed all the...

Beware of affect adorning vêtement of effect.

La politique au milieu des intérêts d’imagination, c’est un coup de pistolet au milieu d’un concert.

The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets.

Girls, here’s the truth about the Ban Bossy campaign: It’s being spearheaded by a privileged group of elite feminists who have a very vested interest in stoking victim politics and exacerbating the gender divide. They...

All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. . . . He draws blueprints for Utopia, but never quite gets it built....

If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient.

When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.

From the people who brought you “zero tolerance,” I present the Gun-Free Zone! Yippee! Problem solved! Bam! Bam! Everybody down! Hey, how did that deranged loner get a gun into this Gun-Free Zone?

Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

How many men soever you slay, you will never kill your successor.

There is no one more sinister or dangerous than an ambitious yet characterless Politician!

By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set up a static tyranny. The Prophet Muhammad attempted to legislate every aspect of life. By adhering to his rules...

Nothing is more egregious than greedy politicians.

La filosofía nos enseña a sentir incertidumbre ante las cosas que nos parecen evidentes. La propaganda, en cambio, nos enseña a aceptar como evidentes cosas sobre las que sería razonable suspender nuestro juicio o sentir...

Fifteen years ago, a business manager from the United States came to Plum Village to visit me. His conscience was troubled because he was the head of a firm that designed atomic bombs. I listened...

If Paul Revere had been a modern day citizen, he wouldn’t have ridden down Main Street. He would have tweeted.

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

In capitalism, man exploits man. In socialism, it’s exactly the opposite.

I honestly see the battle between Democrat and Republican, liberal and conservative as the exact same dynamic–there’s a group of people in this world that don’t like conflict and care about what other people are...

This is the opposite of the free market.

…cultural barriers can be overcome relatively swiftly where there is the political will to do so.

Change we need

Today’s Republican Party…is an insurgent outlier. It has become ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence, and science; and dismissive of...