Understand now, I’m purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all...

A thinking man never be a party man.

Bob Dole revealed he is one of the test subjects for Viagra. He said on Larry King, ‘I wish I had bought stock in it.’ Only a Republican would think the best part of Viagra...

It’s not really masturbating if you’re jacking your clone off. It’s more like politics.

When the Politicians are in Power they will melt the rules for the personal gains when they loose the Power they boil to explode the truths Dr.T.V.Rao MD

case” with deliberate suppression of his opponent’s point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends.

Republicans are a glass half full, and Democrats are a glass half empty. Either way, I want a new glass. I want it full, and I want it clean.

If our limbic system betrays our true intentions, and it’s beyond our conscious control, then only a fool would consider lying a wise course of action. Politicians are full of such wisdom.

If a policy isn’t working, don’t change the policy—change its name. That should be taught in Politics 101.

Love is like 9.75 plus .25. That’s 10, for all of you people trying to add fractions on your fingers. I can only count using eight, because I’m too busy using my middle fingers to...

A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.

I had a dream about you. The setting was upsetting. We were in hell where I was a prisoner and you were a guard. You reported directly to Satan, who reported directly to Congress.

Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.

If you expose what it is that we’re doing, if you inform your fellow citizens about all the things that we’re doing in the dark, we will destroy you. This is what their spate of...

I don’t hate Republicans as individuals. But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country. I really do.

In Washington…the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality

In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It’s be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.

Thirty years ago [written 2009], over-regulation, over-taxation, mis-regulation, statism, state corporatism, and economic folly, cosiness and regulatory capture, and a crescent ideological enemy without, who were assisted by enemies – both fifth columnists and useful...

Republicans don’t like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don’t talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.

Think about itThis xenophobia has hurt me without anyone touching me, but by what I am seeing and the damages it’s causing to this country, business, celebrities and citizens.For I believe there is a conspiracy...

This is politics, raw and urgent, … What is happening across the pages of almost every newspaper is a ruthless attempt to destroy the young challenger among the Tory modernizers’ camp and to keep the...

Eventually all things are known. And few matter.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

We didn’t actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

Power is different from glory for former, in the long run, leads to the latter.

If the tradition which claims that war may be justified does not also admit that it could be unjustified, the affirmation is not morally serious. A Christian who prepares the case for a justified war...

Freedom isn’t a static point. It’s spectrum from absolute to none at all, and is usually inversely proportional to safety.

When you use your energy and resources to punish people, you run out of energy and resources to protect people.

There is nothing political about American literature.

Can compromise be an art? Yes–but a minor art.

Politics is clueless; I can claim -“I am a politician” only because I am not.

The instant that any government obtains a monetary printing press, it becomes a deeply dishonest government, empowered to rob people by stealth. A government with the power to print money knows no limits.

confirmation of what is for me a bedrock principle, that judging is different from politics.

conservative n.A person who possesses an underdeveloped taste for tyranny.liberal n.A person who believes in liberty, but only for the state.

Those who believe religion and politics aren’t connected don’t understand either.

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.

The decline of geography in academia is easy to understand: we live in an age of ever-increasing specialization, and geography is a generalist’s discipline. Imagine the poor geographer trying to explain to someone at a...

Acknowledging that a woman’s right to be safe from a gender-based attack was a “civil right,” I believed, was critically important in changing the American consciousness. When a right reaches the status and categorization of...

Očevidno je da ne postoji nikakav smisao povijesti koji bi se dao spasiti leđima okrenutim prema Auschwitzu niti postoji Bog kojemu se čovjek može klanjati leđa okrenutih prema Auschwitzu. Kao teološko-politička katastrofa Auschwitz ne ostavlja...

In all societies, public rhetoric involves some measure of lying, and history — political history and art history — is made when someone effectively confronts the lie. But in really scary societies all public conversation...

The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away.

We are accustomed to look for the gross and immediate effects and to ignore all else. Unless this appears promptly and in such obvious form that it cannot be ignored, we deny the existence of...

I no longer believed that Valentino would continue to build anything at all. Instead, he would merely leave behind the empire of hope that he had constructed in each of our minds. Leonardo’s empire boasted...

Israelis are a mix of North African, Levantine, and Eastern European, which inflames the politics but does amazing things for the women.

Politics is the only field in which the character of a person does not stand in the way of his career.

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I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.

Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown.And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them...

Patriotism is racism for the modern era.