I start thinking about what happened and then I start thinking about why I’m still here. It’s pointless. They say on TV that the soldiers want to be there? I can’t speak for every soldier,...

But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported by think tanks that increasingly function as public-relations agencies, conservatives...

Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of science. It is a defiant and blasphemous faith, not unlike that held by...

If politicians lived to be only 30-years-old before dying, that’d still be 30 years too long.

We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear what this is supposed to mean. Are we supposed to believe that before...

Do not mislead Perez Anna or malign the people who have sheltered you for over twenty years. We are not – what is the word for eaters of one another?””Capitalists,” said Anna.

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

Independence has made us Soft

If given the choice, I’d rather vote for the dog.

How tragic! Even if the car suffered only a small dent, it makes me want to cry out to God in despair.

When I first heard Twilight was a book about vampires that sparkled in the light and shape shifters/wolves eager to assist the vampires, I thought, Finally, a metaphorical book dealing with politicians and lobbyists.

I watch my feet as I walk along. Left, right, left, right, why is everything about politics?

I used to think that Satan and all the fallen angels were the most evil beings in the universe. Now I think it’s absurd and naïve to think that. Oh, Satan exists, but he’s a...

I find politicians’ speeches moving. Sometimes I don’t even pack up before forever leaving their vicinity.

I long to belong like a midget longs to be long. Footlong hotdogs are 12 inches too short to take seriously, and I vote with my wallet. Sadly, there are no refunds in politics.

Love is like politics, I think as I then think no it isn’t.

Donkeys and elephants represent us politically. Why? Because snakes and roaches would be too obvious.

Rejoice in the rain. Pretend you’ve just exited the desert.” I knew my words impacted her because she shivered in delight. I should be a politician.

A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as...

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

The revolution in global communications thus forces all nations to reconsider traditional ways of thinking about national sovereignty.

Schools were started to train human talents… The Guild… emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs… politics. The original Bene Gesserit school was directed by those who saw the need of a thread of continuity...

Anarchists have taken over (the GOP).

Millions of our citizens do not now have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and to enjoy good health. Millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness. And...

We do not hold that doctrine gives rise to awakening but rather that the individual awakenings come first.

Every time in politics they’ve a change of a leader, just remember they’re changing liars.

A tiger of a rather and a wolf of a brother. Sandwiched between the two, I wonder what my tomorrow holds.

You felt, in spite of all bureaucracy and inefficiency and party strife something that was like the feeling you expected to have and did not have when you made your first communion. It was a...

The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a bigger car, a nicer house to live in? Not...

Remove God from the world of ideas. Remove government, politics from society. Keep sex, humor, utilities. Let private property go.

Contrary to the media circus which portrayed politicians as all-powerful figures, Kentbridge knew from experience the vast majority of US Government officials – elected or otherwise – were puppets who only had the illusion of...

For the normative self-understanding of modernity, Christianity has functioned as more than just a precursor or catalyst. Universalistic egalitarianism, from which sprang the ideals of freedom and a collective life in solidarity, the autonomous conduct...

We need to take the politics out of it.

Clarification is not to clarify things. It is to put one’s self in the clear (Sir Humphrey Appleby)

I think it’s important that (Roe v. Wade) remain legal for medical reasons and other reasons.

In her secret soul, however, she decided that politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names…

Our politicians always show lame excuse to defend their cripple decisions.

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

We advocate that religious figures should not interfere with politics.

Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.

Since Lenin died, every Soviet leader had been a liar. They had all glossed over what was wrong and declined to acknowledge reality. The most striking characteristic of Soviet leadership for the last sixty-five year...

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

To be sure I was!’ Humpty Dumpty said gaily, as she turned it round forhim. ‘I thought it looked a little queer. As I was saying, that SEEMSto be done right–though I haven’t time to...

you should not run for president because tactically you can win. The questions you have to ask are why you’re running for president and what will you do when you are president. You shouldn’t run...

Anyone who objects to any government whatsoever as a form of socialism ought not to pull that socialist lever in their home, the one that makes their waste disappear in a whirlpool into the socialized...

I learnt years ago not to use logic to understand African politics.

Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they’re a mouthy lot and they don’t line up and salute very easily.

…in the running of cities, virtually nothing is done by anyone that is conducive to political health, nor is there a single ally with whom one might go to the aid of justice and still...

Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I am reluctant to let that fact disappear down the memory hole, because if— as the war ends,...

Great men are allowed to spill the blood of others.