His knowledge of war has fed a passion for peace.

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as...

Opposition to this nomination will be based on nothing but partisan politics, and would be an unfortunate strategy at a time when the Senate ought to be coming together to get things done for the...

There wasn’t even enough meat to make proper fun of [….] I keep waiting for somebody else to come on TV, maybe a cabinet member, to read the real speech, the one that tells us...

Democracy should always be viewed with a philosophical perspective rather than a political one, because after all democracy was born to a philosopher and murdered by a politician.

The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the tendency of its users to forgo its nuanced, complex, mid-wifery properties for menace and subjugation. Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence;...

I ascribe to Mark Twain’s theory that the last person who should be President is the one who wants it the most. The one who should be picked is the one who should be dragged...

[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.

Fascism is when corporations become the government.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the...

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

Republicans have succeeded with a social agenda that gets people to vote against their own interests while the Democrats are so elitist that they can’t tap into the anger that’s real.

Ono je to těžké. Kde hrozí bída, tam hrozí socialismus. A kde hrozí socialismus, tam hrozí bída.

The media are desperately afraid of being accused of bias. And that’s partly because there’s a whole machine out there, an organized attempt to accuse them of bias whenever they say anything that the Right...

Change is coming after spreading of awareness

Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation. To concern yourself with...

The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the...

The liberty of man is not safe in the hands of any church. Wherever the Bible and sword are in partnership, man is a slave. All laws for the purpose of making man worship God,...

But his political sense kept up a persistent itch that said: A, Given ignorance in the mix, stupidity was at least as common in politics as astute maneuvering; B, Crisis always drew insects; and, C,...

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which was the most Communist (and in the rather orthodox sense) of the...

Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there’s always the chance it may use its position to...

Mrs. Clinton, speaking to a black church audience on Martin Luther King Day last year, did describe President George W. Bush as treating the Congress of the United States like ‘a plantation,’ adding in a...

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

[P]eople only make decisions based on what they know. You can have everyone in the country vote freely and democratically and still come up with the wrong answer – if the information they base that...

The thing they’re trying to stop is 30-million people getting health insurance. That’s the substance.

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

For too long we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens so long as you obey the law we will leave you alone.” A statement so far to the right that it...

Some churches, sects, cults or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigidly identified with their mental positions as the followers of any political ideology that is closed to any alternative interpretation of reality.

It is not our politicians who will lead the change. The only person who can change our politics is the engaged citizen.

It’s not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.

The multitude,” Cavendish says, “is always desirous of a change. They never see a great man set up but they must pull him down–for the novelty of the thing.

Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It’s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no...

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.

To Trazada’s surprise the Generalissimo laughed, a great subterranean rumbling that shook his gigantic frame like an earthquake. ‘Remedios, mia pobre Remedios, they are ignorant. They are afraid. They are stupid and superstitious. Why, most...

evil” is inbounds….good liberals will not stand up and criticize the bad ones….Stop attacking individual conservatives unless evidence of crossing the line exists. When conservatives cross the line, other conservatives stand up.

I don’t believe in the Constitution because I’m American, I’m American because I believe in the Constitution.

I don’t like dirt, because nothing is dirtier. Except politics.

To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.

The qualities required to be a good leader are usually incompatible with the qualities required to become a leader.

The lives of thousands of young Frenchmen were ready for this literary bath of blood and sentiment in the 1830’s. Their fathers and grandfathers had had their romanticism in the raw: the drama of the...

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.

If I have to beat you up to keep you safe, that’s just what I’ll do. It’s this kind of regard for others that makes me believe I’d be a good politician.

Everybody has something to offer the world. Even rapists, murderers, and politicians. Well, maybe not politicians.

I have a deep respect for shallow pockets. They keep politicians honest.

If a man’s a constant hand-shaker, he must be a politician or a crook—or both, if he is a politician.

I want to keep politics out of my breakfast. Politics isn’t something I want in my eggs, no matter how scrambled I like them.

There aren’t two political parties in this country, it’s all just one big party—and the citizens aren’t invited.

My life story is 75% true. But which quarter is a lie? Better check my pants pockets—the one the politician’s wearing.