As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest. The lesser evils of the regime become entrenched, while the greater good is...

Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He’s not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced....

[Rumsfield’s] reply included a complex formulation that would become inextricably associated with him: ‘There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are...

In a world of full of manipulation, half-truths and lies, the conspiracy theory is often a safer bet than the official story.

In der internationalen Politik geht es nie um Demokratie oder Menschenrechte. Es geht um die Interessen von Staaten. Merken Sie sich das, egal, was man Ihnen im Geschichtsunterricht erzählt.

Insider trading is a serious crime. Do you know what the penalty for doing it is? Nothing, if you’re a member of Congress.

You are a dangerous experimenter, a utopian, a theorist, a despiser of the laws; you would shake the basis upon which society rests.

The actual results of political diplomacy can openly be seen in critical moments. Turkey can insist on leading a very successful foreign policy, however, the acceptance of the fact of the Armenian Genocide by any...

In India, qualified honest people have to follow the instructions of unqualified dishonest people. Thus, the system in India is poor and hence India is still poor.

For some twenty years the window that opened at the end of the Cold War has been allowed to hang flapping in the wind. It is high time that the five nuclear-weapon states take seriously...

The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant...

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

I suffer from tennis elbow. It’s an old masturbating injury from when I was training to go into politics.

Kill all the prisoners, because they’re costing us too much money. Wait! No, kill all the politicians, because they’re spending too much money.

Mr. Shit gives politicians a good name. It’s the rest of the politicians who give Mr. Shit a bad name.

You vote Democrat even if you vote Republican, because they’re two sides of the same coin. So stop flipping that coin. The illusion of controlling the outcome of the coin toss is why we’re all...

My love is three times as deep as you voted for. You thought it was two feet deep, but it’s six feet deep, like a grave.

I put all my eggs in one basket, and then I jizzed all over them. I’m a natural politician.

I sympathize with a mother who has three mouths to feed—especially if two of those mouths are on her face. With a woman like that I’d listen twice as hard for doublespeak. I’m pretty accustomed...

The political climate is stable, when you keep the ruling animals in a stable. I no longer vote for anything that can’t be ridden by a monkey dressed like a cowboy.

My friend had a few kittens she was trying to find a home for, but she was having no luck. They were super cute, so I decided to poison their water supply. A few days...

What never fails inside the mind of an intellectual never works outside the confines of his head. The world’s stubborn refusal to vindicate the intellectual’s theories serves as proof of humanity’s irrationality, not his own....

It’s common to go from ‘crashing the gate’ to guarding it.

When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs. A government cannot be premised on the belief...

Whatever we may think of the merits of torturing children for pleasure, and no doubt there is much to be said on both sides, I am sure we all agree that it should be done...

Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment or religion.

You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!

Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection.

Thank God she doesn’t have to be confirmed by the Senate.(on the birth of his granddaughter)

Política não é apenas ideal, é caminho para se aproximar do ideal

Faith reminds us that change is always possible.

The timing of this clearly has to do with politics ‘¦ but that doesn’t mean the [L.A. plot] isn’t true.

What is the death of a soldier even off duty of an occupying army walking in an occupied territory against the death of a little boy screaming in terror in his father’s arms Where is...

Liberals tend to view traditions, policies, and morals of past generations as arbitrary designs put in place by less enlightened people. Because of this, liberals don’t pay much attention to why traditions developed or wonder...

What is more likely? That tomorrow will be called ‘Thursday’ or that Maxine Waters will play the race card in her ethics investigation?

A loose definition of the Tea Party might be fifteen million pissed-off white people sent chasing after Mexicans on Medicaid by the small handful of banks and investment companies who advertise on Fox and CNBC.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

We the people, the 99% don’t fit in the Hierarchy of Modern Society; the 1 % is not an expanding entity like the Universe, the 99% will never fit in.

So Iasked Dr Ceric if he thought there was a conflict between European values and Islam. ‘Not at all,’ hesaid. ‘Respect for other religions lies at the heart of Islam. And the principle of democracy...

,Qué otra cosa podía esperarse de los jóvenes universitarios en aquel entonces si hasta los que decían servir a la verdadera causa cultural y democrática del país eran hombres que arrastrarían su adolescencia mítica hasta...

Wenn Argumente fehlen, kommt meist ein Verbot heraus.

Now I have very little respect for the electoral system in the United States. I could have respected it in the early days, when the country was small and we had small population. The system...

Anyone even remotely suspect was interrogated, because interrogation is by far the most effective method of speedily banishing inappropriate thoughts from the mind.

It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal absolute values and feign in their declamations—not in their personal conduct—a disdain of...

I’m going to be a model of fearlessness. And when people spew fear, I’m going to stand with an invisible shield around me and let their comments zing off my shield, and I will say...

For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew–or a Quaker–or a Unitarian–or a...

He wanted me to understand two big things: First, that nobody, no group, is above others. Public servants are obliged to level with everybody, whether or not they’ll like what he has to say. And...

Divide and rule, the politician cries;Unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Believing this country to be a political and not a religious organisation … the editor of the NATIONAL CITIZEN will use all her influence of voice and pen against ‘Sabbath Laws’, the uses of the...