My first world is humanity. My second world is humanism. And, I live in the third world being merely a human.

… an impression of inescapable noise or acute disorder, a rush of adrenalin, sensations of alarm, a sense of unbalance or chaos, residual feeling of nausea and anxiety. These are the forms of bodily distress...

Leadership is preceeded by a vision for all; a true leader will lead the nation into an unforseen desired dimensional transformation that even the dead will clap their hands.

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than...

What fueled this hatred? Society.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.

When it comes down to it, government is simply an abandonment of responsibility on the assumption that there are people, other than ourselves, who really know how to manage things. But the government, run ostensibly...

Politics, like religion, hold up torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error

Politics is shit; it corrupts everything it touches…

I consider myself a green party supporter…because green represents my favorite color other than clear. And I met a guy who was running for the green party this one time, and he seemed like he...

So many of the professional foreign policy establishment, and so many of their hangers-on among the lumpen academics and journalists, had become worried by the frenzy and paranoia of the Nixonian Vietnam policy that consensus...

In famine, a focus on women and children highlights biology: here is a mother who cannot feed her child, a breakdown in the natural order of life. This focus obscures who and what is to...

Our aim was not to create profit, but jobs,’ Sanchez Gordillo explained to me. This philosophy runs directly counter to the late-capitalist emphasis on ‘efficiency’ – a word which as been elevated to almost holy...

Kushirikiana na maadui wa nchi yetu ni hatia ya kosa la uhaini. Adhabu yake ni kifo, au kifungo cha maisha.

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Things to do, places to be, people to kill.

Politics bores you?” Bronsen said.Julien smiled. “It does. Apologies, sir, and it is not that I haven’t tried to be fascinated. But careful and meticulous research has suggested the hypothesis that all politicians are liars,...

The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the rear sooner or later.

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.

There are many professions that require individuals, on an ongoing basis, to pass drug tests, physicals and psychological evaluations in order to keep their jobs. Maybe it’s time to start holding the people that are...

The Los Angeles parade would begin in Griffith Park, where a large crowd would assemble and the speeches would be given. Every politician of consequence would be there. There was no way they would miss...

Little towns tend to do a very bad job in these things. They tend to be driven by politics rather than what their own planning staffs may recommend. Another thing: They sometimes just copy what...

Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an action, by causing us to feel them; and we cannot fail to finish by knowing that fire burns, if we...

Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.

I’m famous for my Shepherd’s Pie. Here’s my recipe: lamb, potatoes, cheese, peas, paprika, and a wool-covered apron for the chef/shepherd/wolf-like politician to wear while serving the sheeple up.

Just because I look like John Wayne (at least my liver looks identical to his) doesn’t mean I play cowboy with politics. I’m going to vote for Philo T. Farnsworth for president, and so should...

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.