It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say ‘this saved the life of one Jew, one Vietnamese, one Cambodian’. Specific books, perhaps; but as far as one can...

The Government is making a fool of itself by attributing all terrorism and acts against the government only to one single patriot

Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities–you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation.

Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy of the gospel is ideology. Ideology is a man-made format of how the...

Politics is downstream from culture and not the other way around.

One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.

Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral philosophy and political theory have mostly been attempts to shift male human sexual...

Henry KissingerHow I’m missing yerYou’re the Doctor of my dreamsWith your crinkly hair and your glassy stareAnd your Machiavellian schemesI know they say that you are very vainAnd short and fat and pushyBut at least...

There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of...

Politics is the Art of Controlling Your Enviroment.

Government activities that are for public consumption are eyewash from the citizens.

If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be.

It’s all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the perfect man gets a bellyache?

Konkurrenz ist eine Sublimierung von Krieg.

En democracia la política es un teatro y nadie puede actuar en un teatro sin fingir.

If your desire is for good, the people will be good.

Since I was a small girl, I have lived inside this cottage, shelted by its roof and walls. I have known of people suffering—I have not been blind to them in the way that privilege...

The only candidate I’d allow to play my music would be Bigfoot, and unless we’re talking about foraging for squirrels, he’s notoriously apolitical.

The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson.

It strikes me often while I am in Iran that were Christian evangelicals to take a tour of Iran today, they might find it the model for an ideal society they seek in America. Replace...

I believe in unlimited discovery and achievement.- I believe that dreams can become reality.- I believe in true love.- I believe in kindness and intelligence.- I trust life, regardless.

If you distance yourself from reality and just cling to cliches about democracy find yourself a different job than analyzing politics

There was a direct intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy. For how could the fear, the hatred, and the lunatic credulity which the Party needed in its members be kept at the right pitch,...

There’s a relentless wave of WTF coming out of Washington DC.

A real criminal mastermind isn’t known as a criminal mastermind, because how good can you be if you’re a known criminal? No, a real criminal mastermind is known by another name: politician.

Like ice, this economy is more fluid than ever. Thanks, Washington, DC!

A politician’s word is like a thick tree branch, and the people are all hanging on it. Well, I’ve got noose for you, politicians won’t keep their word, but they will keep you hanging.

Jarod Kintz is a friend, a lover, and a loner. Jarod Kintz talks about Jarod Kintz, because Jarod Kintz has nobody else to talk to. Jarod Kintz is also a liar and a thief, and...

If you’re too slow off a red light, I’ll lay on my horn, because I’m a honky. Was that racist? Only if you’re trying to stir up political votes.

If you had to sacrifice three people to save six people, would you do it? I would—if the three were politicians and the six were teachers, inventors, artists, or anybody but lawyers, lobbyists, or central...

I stepped in dick. Well, just a puddle of penis. Then I wiped it off my feet and voted it into political office.

A politician is a person whose brain is as jiggly as Jell-O, only not as intelligent.

When I want to feel productive, I box up my stuff—and then unpack everything. With my work ethic, and my unethical nature, I think I’d make a perfect politician.

He’s the President—it’s the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it’s warranted.

Why should insurance companies continue to get away with limiting the skills that a health profession has always previously required of its members if they were to be considered fully trained?

ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as...

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.

We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives – but in what we do for...

People tell me that Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks, his sex appeal, and his great hair. I say to them, ‘How do you think I got the job?

Though my stomach is only the size of a pea, I could eat two politicians’ brains.

…the freedom to bear arms may be righteously rejected to encourage the preservation of all corporeal forms of life.

Two of the greatest hungers in our world today are the hunger for spirituality and the hunger for social change. The connection between the two is the one the world is waiting for, especially the...

Es gibt Menschen, die es zeitlebens einem Bettler nachtragen, daß sie ihm nichts gegeben haben.

…it happens that “society is saved” as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts itself over the general. Every demand for the most simple...

Unfortunately, a lot of liberals seem to choose what policies to support based on whether they make them feel nice or mean, instead of whether they work.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

Say as little as possible, hope some of the undecideds like your teeth better than the other guy’s—that’s usually the way this business works.

[Government]is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Tonight I light the candles for all the souls who were merely pawns in the game we call rules of engagement and everything remains as it never was