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...

The ability to discuss things was still the most highly valued commodity in the Soviet Union.

Because this law could mean so much or so little, it held potential for causing great mischief in the world of art and politics. We needed to reduce its uncertainty, and the best way to...

They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making them putty in the hands of their rulers, just like always. It...

I did not have an answer for the maestro that day. Instead my answer has been the labor of my life, principally my Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livy but also my little...

A common strand appeared to unite these conflicts, and that was the advancement of a small coterie’s concept of American interests in the guise of the fight against terrorism, which was defined to refer only...

Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.

The problem with the politicians of both parties in the US is that neither of them have a real agenda except to feather their own nests. They both have their hands deep in corporate pockets....

a room without boooks like a body without soul

The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based...

a kind of emptiness existed in the center of my bagel; really it was just the hole that’s in the middle of all bagels; ‘i need to go read my blog to find out what...

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

Of all the consumer products, chewing gum is perhaps the most ridiculous: it literally has no nourishment – you just chew it to give yourself something to do with your stupid idiot Western mouth.Half the...

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

A sect, incidentally, is a religion with no political power.

If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism.”(Speech in...

The King! I thought him enough of a philosopher to realize that there is no such thing as murder in politics. You know as well as I do, my dear boy, that in politics there...

Have you ever found yourself saying, “There ought to be a law against this,” or, “Somebody should do something”? Well, here’s the good news – you can be the one to do something. You can...

In politics… shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.

There are at least a million truths that are hidden by just 100 lies.

We need to understand the more government spends, the more freedom is lost…Instead of simply debating spending levels, we ought to be debating whether the departments, agencies, and programs funded by the budget should exist...

…there is not a day of my life that I am not critiquing myself to see if my politics are borne out in the way that I live and the way that I talk and...

Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

I don’t approve of mixing ideologies,” Ivanov continued. “There are only two conceptions of human ethics, and they are at opposite poles. One of them is Christian and humane, declares the individual to be sacrosanct,...

My mom and dad refused to believe that people who had grown up together in peace and friendship, had gone to the same schools, spoken the same language, and listened to the same music, could...

These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.

The only way to Cuba is with the CIA.

When the old men fight, the young people die.

So Lorenzo grew up in Chile without arms, an unfortunate situation for any child, but he also grew up in Pinochet’s Chile, which turned unfortunate situations into desperate ones, on top of which he soon...

The only real recourse that [Russian] people had against tsarist rule was violence and rebellion. It was once remarked that Russia’s constitution was “absolutism moderated by assassination.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting.

I do not intend to defend capitalism or capitalists. They, like everything human, have their defects. I only say their possibilities of usefulness are not ended.Capitalism has borne the monstrous burden of the war and...

There is a real question of whether nine unelected federal judges know exactly what’s best for Vermont politics, and maybe local politicians have a better sense of what’s best for local politics. This is a...

All of us – we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children’s expectations.

The very fact that ‘the mystical’ is seen as irrelevant to issues of social and political authority itself reflects contemporary, secularized notions of and attitudes toward power. The separation of the mystical from the political...

Speaking as a Christian, I find the Apostle Paul appealing and the apostle Peale appalling.

A year ago, I was at a dinner in Amsterdam when the question came up of whether each of us loved his or her country. The German shuddered, the Dutch were equivocal, the Brit said...

A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill’s essay On Liberty, or Hobbes’s Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen...

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally. Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity and second—if the need arises elimination or eradication of heterogeneity.

Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself.

If we can’t say what we think under our roof, then we have no roof.

I was born in the house my father built.