I had a dream about you. We were two lovers disguised as librarians. We met in the non-fiction section, and that’s the truth. Or at least that’s what we told your parents. They didn’t need...

I’m not the pervert you think I am. No, I’m an entirely different pervert. Keep cardboard tubes away from me. (I should be a politician.)

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.

I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period. We are not a religious people, but we are a nation...

A number I’d love to know: the % of those now saying ‘we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran’ who will support one if Obama does it.

I know you don’t think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense. A child born mid-flight has no nation. I can pull on either culture,...

collecting secrets was and is crucial to solving foreign policy puzzles.

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

Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?

The primary purposes of the political pamphlets of the early 1700s were neither to enlighten nor educate the masses, but to incite partisan conversation and spread commensurate ideas . . . Facts were not permitted...

If you fail to offer yourself for leadership then accept the blind man who is leading you.

No fim da entrevista, quando o líder cubano [Fidel Castro] já havia discorrido sobre tema variados, a repórter Lucia Newman quis saber a opinião sobre os cubanos presos em Miami ‘acusados de fazer espionagem para...

Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (2 Cor. 3:17).

This week, Zuma was quoted as saying, ‘When the British came to our country, they said everything we are doing was barbaric, was wrong, inferior in whatever way.’ But the serious critique of Zuma is...

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn’t that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global...

Gov. Christie says ‘New Jersey First.’ State-based Isolationism!

When people think that politics is a joke, they then deserve the jokers that rule them.

The capital of the United States is the home to the best of the worst humanity has to offer. The most corrupt, the most deceitful, the most tyrannical, the most greedy, and the most evil...

It was a roadblock, manned by an officer and several other soldiers. Sivaram and the trishaw driver were ordered out of the vehicle, and I was told to stay where I was. The soldiers held...

Yet isn’t it all—all of it, every single episode and detail of the Clinton saga—exactly like that? And isn’t some of it a little bit more serious? For Sen. Clinton, something is true if it...

The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.

Inflation is taxation without representation.

What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment.

Sound the tocsin of national peril and hordes of well-meaning folk with nothing much to do always materialize from nowhere. They itch to meddle in great matters of which their comprehension is usually pretty dim,...

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who...

What happened to the good old days when rich white men just bought their way into office?

We must have public officials who will stand up and tell the people exactly what they think… Our failure in recent years has not been the failure of the people to meet the challenges placed...

What I have said, and still believe with ever-increasing conviction, is that human society is always,whether it will or no, aristocratic by its very essence, to the extremethat it is a society in the measure...

You can call anyone you want a traitor as long as you’re the one holding the pen.

How can I help being a humbug. . .when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can’t be done?

Government in and of itself is the foremost agent for destroying order and imposing chaos.””To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war.””Political theory would be fine in a perfect...

If you want to denounce impunity then you have to start with denouncing the impunity that the regime enjoys.

A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it’s lowest ones

the path of politics should be cleared with the sword of the constitution

I became convinced that the advanced industrial countries, through international organizations like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the World Bank, were not only not doing all that they could...

Actually, Bush, technically speaking, is not really President-because he refused to take the Oath of Office. I don’t know how many of you noticed this, but the wording of the Oath of Office is written...

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than “politicians” think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting...

The United States has never done away with slavery; we just stopped calling it such. These days, we call it free-market capitalism.

The world is already yours – why try to conquer it?

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

Peace isn’t the absence of wars provoked by a series of delinquents of all sort, but a dynamic process of cooperation between states and people…

other side” is wrong. These proclamations appear in many forms, from scathing letters to the editor to frothing-at-the-mouth comments on blogs and internet videos. Although expression and debate are vital parts of policymaking, political speech...

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

It is not clear who will bring to the Whitehouse those useful commodities of vivid language, a sense of history and most important – a sense of humour, but Johnson himself will provide many other...

I am a democrat because I believe that no man or group of men is good enough to be trusted with uncontrolled power over others. And the higher the pretensions of such power, the more...