For too long we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens so long as you obey the law we will leave you alone.” A statement so far to the right that it...

Some churches, sects, cults or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigidly identified with their mental positions as the followers of any political ideology that is closed to any alternative interpretation of reality.

It is not our politicians who will lead the change. The only person who can change our politics is the engaged citizen.

It’s not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.

The multitude,” Cavendish says, “is always desirous of a change. They never see a great man set up but they must pull him down–for the novelty of the thing.

Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It’s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no...

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.

To Trazada’s surprise the Generalissimo laughed, a great subterranean rumbling that shook his gigantic frame like an earthquake. ‘Remedios, mia pobre Remedios, they are ignorant. They are afraid. They are stupid and superstitious. Why, most...

evil” is inbounds….good liberals will not stand up and criticize the bad ones….Stop attacking individual conservatives unless evidence of crossing the line exists. When conservatives cross the line, other conservatives stand up.

I don’t believe in the Constitution because I’m American, I’m American because I believe in the Constitution.

I don’t like dirt, because nothing is dirtier. Except politics.

To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.

The qualities required to be a good leader are usually incompatible with the qualities required to become a leader.

The lives of thousands of young Frenchmen were ready for this literary bath of blood and sentiment in the 1830’s. Their fathers and grandfathers had had their romanticism in the raw: the drama of the...

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.

If I have to beat you up to keep you safe, that’s just what I’ll do. It’s this kind of regard for others that makes me believe I’d be a good politician.

Everybody has something to offer the world. Even rapists, murderers, and politicians. Well, maybe not politicians.

I have a deep respect for shallow pockets. They keep politicians honest.

If a man’s a constant hand-shaker, he must be a politician or a crook—or both, if he is a politician.

I want to keep politics out of my breakfast. Politics isn’t something I want in my eggs, no matter how scrambled I like them.

There aren’t two political parties in this country, it’s all just one big party—and the citizens aren’t invited.

My life story is 75% true. But which quarter is a lie? Better check my pants pockets—the one the politician’s wearing.

It’s amazing how fast a handshake turns into a handjob. Ah, you’ve got to love politics.

I had a dream about you. It was just you and me at the table, and there were two pieces of apple pie available. You thought it worked out perfectly, but I thought it was...

If instead of horns, unicorns had dildos on their heads, I’ll bet more politicians would try to find them.

As a group, we do spend a lot of time on buses, at lunches, and politics does come up. I don’t know if we know what we’re talking about.

A further reason for my hatred of . . . ideologies is quite a primitive one. I have an aversion to killing people for the fun of it. What the fun is, I did not...

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, is the reverse.

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

Indeed, one concern would be that the initial neoconservative response to a zombie outbreak would be to invade Iraq again out of force of habit.

The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe...

Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

For too many generations of the common people of Rome were allowed no hand in governing, and their state religion had long since mummified into dry rituals that never touched ordinary passions. It was inevitable,...

There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.

We all know what to do, but we don’t know how to get re-elected once we have done it.

Thar is two things that every national crisis is bound to show up: first, a lot o’ dum fools in command; second, lot o great commanders in the ranks. An’ fortunately before the crisis is...

[Politicans] are salespeople. Instead of rotisserie ovens they are selling this idea of preemptive war or social-security reforms.

Asked who attacked America on 9/11, [Sarah Palin] suggested several times that it was Saddam Hussein.

The political trend is always to be observed, partly as a spectacle, partly for one’s own safety. The liberal is dissatisfied with regime; the anarch passes through their sequence – as inoffensively as possible –...

First wrong by brow-beater abuses the body of law. And the revenge of brow-beaten announces that there is no law in state. Says Bhutta

My life needs editing.

Women must show their public face. We must help to work out our own community problems. We must insist on having equal voices and equal responsibilities. . . In large part, success depends on changing...

I didn’t stay out of politics. I served on committees but after awhile…I guess it was just time for me to come back.

Relationships are so much like the United States – they only really thrive when faced with an external threat.

Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government. That is, libertarians believe that murder is murder and does not become sanctified by reasons of state...

Money is a servant to politicians and the country.But, if the politicians and the country become the servant of the money, the politicians has failed.

In this country, you look at a person, and you know them. It is the inside-out way the people of this country wear their soul. In their eyes you can find civilisations of honesty or...

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

The American political system is like fast food–mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things…and everybody wants some.