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.

No, I’m the human here. I’m the life at stake. I’m the one with fingernails, who feels pain.Me.

. . . have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” —Steve Jobs

…all members of Congress should be required wear NASCAR uniforms. You know, the kind with the patches? That way we’d know who is sponsoring each of them. I think he was kidding; they’d never be...

We are our own worst enemy.

Never accept the role of a Gladiator if you do not have the spirit of a Warrior.

That’s one of the most ridiculous and insulting things that I think I’ve heard in politics. Lynn Swann is the outsider, and Bill Scranton’s the guy who’s been in Harrisburg before, who’s been around the...

Entre los individuos, como entre las naciones, el respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz — Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace.

Military strategy…has become the diplomacy of violence.

Mainly, though, the Democratic Party has become the party of reaction. In reaction to a war that is ill conceived, we appear suspicious of all military action. In reaction to those who proclaim the market...

If it is indeed the business of imagination to make politics distrust itself – reminding it that its principles are not literal facts but constructs of imagination – it is also its business to encourage...

And for once, Donald Rumsfeld, in the news at the time over the Iraq war made sense to me: “As we know,” he said, famously, “there are known knowns-things we know we know. We also...

Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But there is no university without humane inquiry, which means that universities and advanced capitalism are fundamentally incompatible. And the political...

Politics divides a nation, instead of bringing its people together.

Therefor I doubt not but, if it had been a thing contrary to any man’s right of dominion, or to the interest of men that have dominion, ‘that the three angles of a triangle should...

You can’t become a billionaire stepping over children sleeping on the street.

The dead should not rule the living.

Freedom isn’t the highest good. Power is. For without power, your freedom can be taken.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

the Bradman class” denoted the highest kind of excellence: it would include Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Newton, Archimedes, and maybe a dozen others. Well, said Hardy, there had only been two additions in his lifetime. One was...

Eating is an agricultural act.

Now, I have always wanted to agree with Lady Bracknell that there is no earthly use for the upper and lower classes unless they set each other a good example. But I shouldn’t pretend that...

When politics and home life have become one and the same, when economic problems have been solved in such a way that individual and collective interests are identical – all constraints having disappeared – it...

Orwell’s short and intense life has for years borne witness to some of those verities of which we were already aware. Parties and churches and states cannot be honest, but individuals can. Real books cannot...

The worst part, the worst part, was that Lord de Worde was never wrong. It was not a position he understood in relation to his personal geography. People who took an opposing view were insane,...

Let’s run the experiment.

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don’t think we speak the truth to power for power’s ear, but for the ear and the imagination of future...

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public...

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by...

We’re sport ambassadors, and we’re not involved in politics.

Und in der Regel erweist es sich überdies als Vorteil, nicht über die Maßen klug zu sein. Der Mangel an Zweifel am eigenen Tun erleichtert das politische Führungsleben, während Skrupel und Reflexionswut es erheblich beschweren.

Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own...

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

Mr. Craig was not above talking politics occasionally, though he piqued himself rather on a wise insight than on specific information.

Or would​ you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broke​n glass​ in it?”To be undecided in this elect​ion is to pause​ for a moment and then ask how the chick​en is cooked.

True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights.

But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions of the past 30 years. It needs a return to the conviction that economic growth and the affluence...

Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary.

Solutions to mankind’s problems are easy and obvious. They remain unsolved because those who could solve them – don’t want to.