And the banks – hard to believe in a time when we’re facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created – are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly...

I never favored any political party. Being a conservative or a liberal, a Republican or a Democrat, these are just labels that people use to categorize each other so that they can quickly decide whether...

A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough – but a revolution which is coming whether...

Regulation of sexual behavioris the preferred route to wider socialcontrol.

Behind every act in Israel’s identity politics stretches, like a long black shadow, the idea of an eternal power and race.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable…. I advice keep singing peacefully “GO NAWAZ GO

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more...

Religion unites people.Politics divide them.

Luisa rolls her napkin into a compact ball. “I ask three simple questions. How did he get that power? How is he using it? And how can it be taken off the sonofabitch?

What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can’t be apolitical. It will come and get you. It’s not that you shouldn’t be neutral. It’s that...

A government that kills its own citizens is like a parent that kills their own kids aka filicide or like a mother that kills her unborn by abortion .

Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.

talk,” and in general to whatever the knowledge-powers of government and management don’t want to hear, which is thus relegated to exclusion from all recognized activity, relegated to the role of a witness.

In the tired hand of a dying man, Theodore Senior had written: “The ‘Machine politicians’ have shown their colors… I feel sorry for the country however as it shows the power of partisan politicians who...

Just like all people – just want to get on with their lives, and have families, and have a bit of fun and have a decent life. They are not interested in war – no...

It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.

Aos políticos: «menos liberalismo e mais carácter»; aos homens de letras: «menos eloquência e mais ideia»; aos cidadãos em geral: «menos progresso e mais moral».

Stop Duane Thomas!

In insisting that personal habit and political action be one and the same, absolutist moralizing limits the possibilities of both.

The main thing is, the constraints have come off style. What we are saying now is that the Revolution does not proceed in a pitiless, forward direction, its politics and its language becoming ever more...

At daybreak on the first day, thousands of Cambodians are already calmly waiting outside my polling station. They squat on the ground, silent and patient. We didn’t expect this at all. We thought they would...

Das Bild vom Wirtschaftsgeschehen als einem Wettlauf oder Wettkampf ist in seinen Details etwas verschwommen, doch es scheint, als hätte es als Wettlauf kein Ziel und deshalb kein natürliches Ende. Das einzige Ziel des Wettläufers...

We live in a world of contrast and it’s sad we are among people who can’t seem to grasp the differences surrounding them.

I believe in true love. But my opinion is tainted, because I also believe in Bigfoot, aliens, and in the existence of honest politicians.

It’s illegal to forcefully take money from people unless you’re the government. It’s illegal to take someone’s liberty, unless you’re the government. It’s illegal to kill someone, unless you’re the government. Private organizations can do...

As we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and others, we discern that they were all men who insisted upon being themselves and who refused to...

Every politician has a promising career. Unfortunately, most of them do not keep those promises.

You can’t understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.

not done” to say it… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in...

When the mechanic has to mend a watch he lets the wheels run out; but the living watchworks of the state have to be repaired while they act, and a wheel has to be exchanged...

I think we should keep politics out of church, and back in hell where it belongs.

I’m wearing my political mustache today. If you want to see it, you’ll find it on the pubic region of a lobbyist.

I wish somebody would combine tasers and dildos, and test the devices out on all the politicians in Washington DC. Well, all the politicians except Barney Frank, who’d actually derive pleasure from the experiment.

This is America. Every vote counts. Sometimes twice, if it helps me get elected.

I stayed up all night making love—to myself. That reminds me, I need to buy some more Jell-O and political biographies.

I had a dream about you. You were storing my brain in a pickle jar in the fridge, and I only discovered it when I went to garnish my hamburger. Mindless and hungry, I was...

That’s precisely why the majority of the population voted me into public office.

I’d kill every politician with a spoon, if I thought they had coffee for brains. But they’re simply not that intelligent, and I wish the people would wake up to that fact.

I have an erection like a congressman—it just won’t quit.

Politics has really turned a lot of decent men into heartless beings.

Politics is clearly a not so happening topic in our young blood. I could clearly see many students yawning. Some might have been discussing the new Shakira video amongst themselves, the one shown on MTV...

In many ways politics follows culture. As ancient Greek musician Damon of Athens said, ‘Show me the lyric of a nation and it matters not who writes its laws.’ Movies, television, books, magazines, the Internet,...

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

strong connections to Wisconsin’s progressive politics.

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage — the more the minimum, the better.

Americans, though apparently impressed by ghastly sentimentality and outrageous hypocrisy, are by nature much more politically cynical than Canadians. In their longer history they have had much more to be cynical about. They demand a...

In response to my question about how we might rein in the empire, he said, “That’s why I’m meeting with you. Only you in the United States can change it. Your government created this problem...

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.