A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

Tutti gli animali sono uguali, ma alcuni sono più uguali degli altri

You don’t stockpile guns because ‘you never know’. You stockpile guns because you do know. And while you may be wrong, your shitload of guns says you no longer welcome debate on the subject.

America’s been ruined by one word: Bankers. No, two words: Bankers and lawyers. Make that three words. Add politicians to that list. Oh, and don’t forget the lobbyists.

Boy, when Grandma Wrinklebottom comes to town, you’d better hide your underwear. I know I’ll be hiding my political perspectives.

Arlington National cemetery is huge! But that’s not surprising, because DC is the world’s largest graveyard of good ideas and intentions. Politicians are natural hunters. If there is a good and productive thing, they will...

She’s beautiful, but she’s also got brains. I’ll bet zombies would love to eat out of her skull like a bowl of Jell-O that had an IQ of 180—which is absurd, because the last bowl...

Would you mind terribly if instead of serving desert, I masturbated quietly at the dinner table? I’m training for Congress.

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

The president of the US is the leader of the free world, if by free world you mean the country with the largest prison system.

Not even death can keep me from the woman I love. And why should it? My death won’t keep me from voting for President every four years.

I once saw a cockroach try to step on a politician, because it thought it was vile and disgusting.

Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law–the supreme law–was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but on the federal government. The government, and those who ran it, were not...

a filmmaker we almost lost to politics … my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty.

I commissioned two political experts to advise me about what I could do to oppose the re-election of President Bush.

Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to pull down. A grey-clad monk, who is the spirit of the Middle Ages,...

my dance card is going to be full.

If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn’t exist.

There is much: recognition of the fact that human beings live indeterminate and incomplete lives; recognition of the power exerted over and upon us by our own habits and memories; recognition of the ways in...

Las ideologías son prisiones mentales que producen ceguera.

The public is always relieved to find that once the chief officers of state are elected they do not sincerely want change.

If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.

I raised my right hand and placed my left on the Quran, which was being held by my wife and mom. Suddenly, I was blinded by a cascade of camera flashes…

There are two things that turn a boy into a man; the size of his dick and the level of his patience.

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

When the Crossfire paradigm loses its force, all that’s left is a bunch of people with different views all sitting together in a room, wondering why they’re all paying three bucks a gallon for gas,...

If people don’t take politics seriously, then they deserve the jokers that rule over them.

Orwell clung with a kind of wry, grim pride to the old ways of the last class that had ruled the old order. He must sometimes have wondered how it came about that he should...

I think I’m most proud of the fact that after 30 years in politics, I had a lot of folks who wanted me to come back.

I wonder are we the people really that high on these political agenda’s these day’s? Or are we merely pawns in the majestic Game of Thrones?

As every slumdweller knew, there were three main ways out of poverty: finding an entrepreneurial niche, as the Husains had found in garbage; politics and corruption, in which Asha placed her hopes; and education.

do something.” The high-minded reformers experience a glow of triumph and turn their attention to new causes. The interested parties go to work to make sure that the power is used for their benefit. They...

Wir brauchen keinen Dritten Weltkrieg. Wir haben Kapitalismus, Kommunismus und Tourismus.

She’s become a Russian again, he thought. When something works, she’s grateful. When it doesn’t work, it’s life.

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

too” rich, and benefiting the rest—the majority—of the people, they cannotoppose any tenable argument to those who are asking for more of this allegedlybeneficial policy. As long as any degree of inequality is left, there...

Rocket Fever Grips Nation’s Teenagers’ cheers on enthusiastic newsreel, reflecting the nation’s sudden reversal in attitude following the successful launch of Explorer-I into Earth orbit. Rather than being strange and threatening, outer space looks set...

If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools,...

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

,No ha observado usted que la profesión de déspota es más fácil que la de médico o la de abogado? Primer año: ciclo de promesas, sonrisas y cortesías para los electores; segundo año: liquidación de...

Whenever we use our religion, as individuals, or as groups within the church, to act in tandem with political and economic groups that arrest the voice of truth or destroy others, then we are Judas.

Watch a man–say, a politician–being interviewed on television, an you are observing a demonstration of what both he and his interrogators learned in school: all questions have answers, and it is a good thing to...

We are naked, but we think we are not; we are wrong, but think we are correct. We are misled but we think we are properly guided. We think we have leaders but in reality...

Ideology follows the money.””Governments don’t protect people, people protect governments.””To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war.

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble...

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light in the...

And what physicians say about consumptive illnesses is applicable here: that at the beginning, such an illness is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognized or treated...

If you’re not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it?

well, I became a drug addict and I lost my house, family, and my job and all that.” It’s not because you became a drug addict but, because there is a war on drugs which...