Politics is just show business for ugly people.

The only problem with politicians taking two week vacations every year is it’s about 50 weeks too short.

Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil. Next time, go all out and write in Lucifer on the ballot.

If your favorite politician got ran over by a bus, I’d express my condolences by telling you I know how you feel. Why just the other day I ran over a rat, and I felt...

I want to write a book called Kissing Kissinger. It won’t be about kissing, Kissinger, or even politics. It’ll be about radiator fluid, and all the health benefits you can enjoy from chugging it.

I’m a gopher. If I see something I want, I go for it, Orafoura said .And I’m a shepherd. If I see a sheep I like, I fuck it, I replied. I mean I would,...

If you’re doing it right, love takes everything you’ve got—just like a politician.

I had eggs for breakfast. I ate them off the hood of a politician’s car, after I threw them there.

When politicians declare war, I declare my love for antilove for them.

I had a dream about you. You acted like a stranger, and tried to introduce yourself to me while standing next to me at my neighboring urinal in the men’s room. You tried to shake...

Jacksonville has more sex offenders than any city since Sodom. Or Gomorrah. Actually, I may be mistaken. I always confuse sex offender with politician.

People are naturally hardworking but will stop working hard at anything if they learn from experience that their effort makes no difference.

Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as they found it. On those few occasions when major change does...

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.

We are so sluggish in our mentality that we think the world’s problems are not our business, that they have to be resolved by the United Nations or by substituting new leaders for the old.

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.

I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women’s hands not only as a right but as a desperate...

This is politics, raw and urgent,

right” answer to every moral question. In practice, however, he seldom deviated from an opportunistic course, calculated to bring him power.

He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.

If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government...

As heirs to a legacy more than two centuries old, it is understandable why present-day Americans would take their own democracy for granted. A president freely chosen from a wide-open field of two men every...

From the ethical point of view, no one can escape responsibility with the excuse that he is only an individual, on whom the fate of the world does not depend. Not only can this not...

Nonviolent action on behalf of justice is no automatic forumla with promise of success: but neither is war. After all, at least half of the people who go to war for some cause deemed worthy...

Steal from those beneath you; attack those above you.

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.

It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind, is a...

Christianity was not meant to be a weapon or an argument or a show of force or a political tool. Or an act of aggression or coercion. It was never meant to be a cause...

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Silence is what causes most of humanity’s problems

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. -Jose Bergamin, author (1895-1983)

power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutley

I don’t think about politics,” Rabbit says. “That’s one of my Goddam precious American rights, not to think about politics.

America is the promised land, because each generation bequeathed to its children a promise, a promise that they might not come to enjoy but which they fully expected their offspring to fulfill. So the words...

When first asked if he would grant an interview with TIME, Greene responded by asking a question of his own: ‘Does the candidate get paid?

Are you okay in there?” China asked.Lucia glanced at me, and we both cracked up.

What was, was. The past defines itself. Historians refuse to accept that definition & instead superimpose their analysis of the past through the eyes of the present. Thus, history becomes a pale reflection of the...

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people...

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

It’s easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in one’s life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.

Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don’t much care for.

Warfare is now an interlocking system of actions—political, economic,psychological, military—that aims at the overthrow of the establishedauthority in a country and its replacement by another regime.

That’s what I like to call him, “the current president.” I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W. Bush. I like to call him “the current president” because it’s a hopeful...

How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.

The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

Our so-called leaders speakWith words they try to jail youThe subjugate the meekBut it’s the rhetoric of failure