All you decent, well-meaning gentlemen, let me ask you, have you any idea what sort of place the world is becoming all around you? The days when you could act out of your noble instincts...

[David] Maraniss sees [Barack] Obama as a man with “a moviegoer’s or writer’s sensibility, where he is both participating and observing himself participating, and views much of the political process as ridiculous or surreal, even...

I ask: which of the two, civil or natural life, is more likely to become insufferable to those who live it? We see about us practically no people who do not complain about their existence;...

America operates under the notion of equality before the law. Basic fairness is an article of faith. We may not agree on everything all of the time, but we select our leaders together. And when...

It was Bill Clinton who once pithily captured the contrast between the two parties when it came to selecting a presidential standard-bearer: “Democrats want to fall in love; Republicans just fall in line.

If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.

After eighteen long months covering this dreary business, the whole campaign appears in my mind’s eye as one long, protracted scratch-fight over Internet-fueled nonsense.

From the comfort of distance, [Non resident Indians and Kashmiris] financially and emotionally support ideologies whose consequence they don’t have to face. They are not just a nuisance. As a collective they are dangerous. When...

Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

I am trying to create awareness of the true concept of democracy.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I’ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.”(Larry King Live, May 11, 2009)

The speaker calls for a careful examination of Christ’s principle of turning the other cheek before we use it as a demand or excuse for total personal pacifism. After all, when literally struck on the...

I have promised not to interfere in politics and I have not said anything about many things which were done wrong.

Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for — annually, not oftener — if they had...

Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems.

Republican or Democrat, this nation’s affluent urban and suburban classes understand their bread is buttered on the corporate side. The primary difference between the two parties is that the Republicans pretty much admit that they...

Los Pueblos tienen los Gobiernos que se merecen.

It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.

My dad will win, I silently countered, even as I smiled sweetly. I couldn’t wait to spike the ball right through her block, no matter how tall she was. In health class we’d learned that...

I think I have done well, though I am abandoned, with the curse of Cain upon me.

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)

The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you’ve just told them.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver’s license age than at voting age.

What is the golden role? Some say it is make a ton of money. Some say it’s have a career you can brag about. I say it’s Leave this world better then you found it.

The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one’s own mind and heart.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

I wish it were different. I wish that we privileged knowledge in politicians, that the ones who know things didn’t have to hide it behind brown pants, and that the know-not-enoughs were laughed all the...

Beware of affect adorning vêtement of effect.

La politique au milieu des intérêts d’imagination, c’est un coup de pistolet au milieu d’un concert.

The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets.

Girls, here’s the truth about the Ban Bossy campaign: It’s being spearheaded by a privileged group of elite feminists who have a very vested interest in stoking victim politics and exacerbating the gender divide. They...

All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. . . . He draws blueprints for Utopia, but never quite gets it built....

If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient.

When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.

From the people who brought you “zero tolerance,” I present the Gun-Free Zone! Yippee! Problem solved! Bam! Bam! Everybody down! Hey, how did that deranged loner get a gun into this Gun-Free Zone?

Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

How many men soever you slay, you will never kill your successor.

Government should protect people and regulate corporations, not protect corporations and regulate people.

He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father’s. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he...

We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the internet, where information is still freely available. For the rest,...

What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace – a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the moment we’re in, comes up with ways of dealing with...

For 1,300 days of Sarajevo’s drama, important people in the world who were supposed to act kept their eyes closed, … But not you. You were not silent. Your voice was clear.

It is best to keep one’s own state intact; to crush the enemy’s state is only second best.

in order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can’t do it.

Rather than standing or speaking for children, we need to stand with children speaking for themselves. We don’t need a political movement for children… [we need to] build environments and policies for our collective future.

Be out of the mainstream. I’m out of the mainstream. I enjoy it, who wants to be in the mainstream?