I do not deny, but strongly affirm, the right of the State to interfere to cure a great evil. I say that in this case it would interfere to create a great evil; and I...

You are put in school to be trained to become exactly what they want you to be: not them, anything but them. They live on a golden island and have the key to the only...

I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government,...

For myself the delay may be compared with a reprieve; for in confidence I assure you, with the world it would obtain little credit that my movements to the chair of Government will be accompanied...

Since Aureliano at that time had very confused notions about the difference between Conservatives and Liberals, his father in law gave him some schematic lessons. The Liberals, he said, were Freemasons, bad people, wanting to...

What conclusion is to be drawn from this paradox so worthy of being born in our time; and what will become of virtue when one has to get rich at all cost?The ancient political thinkers...

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

A nervous silence loosens tongues

What a City Council should do, and what it will do, don’t alwaysmatch up.

Any time you throw your weight behind a political party that controls two thirds of the government and that party can’t keep the promise that it made to you during election time and you’re dumb...

Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children,...

Modern politics is like watching a film with only bad guys. It soon starts to get really boring, because one of the points of stories is that they should have some sort of redeeming character,...

No one is as murderously ‘Islamophobic’ as Islamists are.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they’ve stolen.

(on his thought on excessive nationalism) …the country was no doubt very important, but that there was no need at all to act the clown by talking about it all the time, as if one...

that every senator in the great council of a nation, after he had delivered his opinion, and argued in the defence of it, should be obliged to give his vote directly contrary; because if that...

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them–and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.

I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn’t in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I’d learned long ago from Charles...

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant.

The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.

Or they’ll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics

His sentences didn’t seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.

To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can’t learn at the foot of any wise man: Get up! The art of living is simply getting up...

En general, el político es político precisamente porque es torpe.

Already the people murmur that I am your enemybecause they say that in verse I give the world your me.They lie, Julia de Burgos. They lie, Julia de Burgos.Who rises in my verses is not...

If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics,” Ford said, “then something is the matter with politics.

…Subordination of the state to Christian values is precisely what the early Puritans, even those in the tradition of the Mayflower Pilgrims, aimed to do. The First Amendment notwithstanding, large numbers of the American public...

We once again see the painful reality of the spineless political intelligentsia

In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it

Overborrowing or overlending? Lenders encourage indebtedness because it is profitable. Developing country governments are sometimes even pressured to overborrow … Even without corruption, it is easy to be influenced by Western businessmen and financiers …...

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors […] I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun...

We’re all in this together.

Barack Obama is an even worse president than George W. Bush, because an evil bastard who knows what he’s doing is far more dangerous than an evil bastard who doesn’t have a clue.

Funny how in a material world full of pundits and economists obsessed with assets and liabilities -personally, economically and globally – few speak about the greatest of all these…YOU.

far too many politicians suffer from foot and mouth disease; they always put a foot in their mouths

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

The question of socialism or communism or capitalism or between the left and right – I think the important question is between the industrial society and the earth-based society. And I say that because I...

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

A city’s only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.

Impartial, compassionate, brave, and understanding…these are the traits that come with putting the Noble Eightfold Path into practice. By following this path, anyone can become the kind of leader the Buddha hoped to see—a leader...

POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately.

We are defending Christianity; not “my religion”. When we mention our personal opinions we must always make quite clear the difference between them and the Faith itself.

When considering a candidate for office, almost right up until they enter the polling booth and sometimes even in the booth itself, most voters rely more on what they see and hear themselves in real...

Conquest occurred through violence, and over-expolitation and oppression necessitate continued violence, so the army is present. There would be no contradiction in that, if terror reigned everywhere in the world, but the colonizer enjoys, in...

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.

Ivanov- “Up to now , all revolutions have been made by moralizing diletantes. They were always in good faith and perished because of their dilettantism. We for the first time are consequent…””Yes,” said Rubashov. “So...

When we start building perceptions based on our own experiences and judgements and not by the influence of fake media reports, that’s the indication of our transformation into a mature society.