A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

If you don’t say anything, you won’t be called on to repeat it.

Women deserve better than propaganda and lies to get into panties. Propaganda and lies to get into office, to get out of court, to get out of paying child support. Get the fuck out of...

You would have me harken back to a time when the outcome of a contest was not known until after the voting. How nostalgic.

The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats…

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

When the vice president is immune to politics and tone-deaf to politics, as Vice President Cheney has shown himself to be at various stages along the way, then his perspective on this kind of situation...

We preach about capitalism and the beauty of unfettered market forces determining price–but not when it comes to gas. When it comes to gas, we need it cheap, and the president had better get it...

I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.

Over the last fifteen months we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been to fifty-seven states. I think, one left to go.

Politics is the application of Sufism to earthlife…To refuse to act politically is to starve your children, destroy civilization.

Humans are capable of so much more. Power mongers like you have stripped away what is most valuable to us, the importance of our heritage and family values. We have been robbed of this, blinded...

A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

The world hasn’t changed that much; men still rule.

In our century of progress and industrialization we still cannot avoir and prevent wars. I’d propose to have a separate planet where we’d insert fighting coutries to solve their business.

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right...

The special skill of the politician consists in knowing what passions can be most easily aroused, and how to prevent them, when aroused, from being harmful to himself and his associates…Moreover, since politicians are divided...

Texas politics has been dominated by George Bush for so long. It’s a whole new world.

Lets make a change today while everybody takes a day off and waits to make a change tomorrow.

The Golds have everything, yet they demand sacrifices even from their own. This place is sick. This empire broken. It eats its kings, its queens, as hungrily as it does the paupers who mill its...

This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in the not-too-remote future, the stout heart of Queen Elizabeth II will cease to...

Our freedom of mobility has helped keep this nation free. We are eagles, not herds of cattle. Eagles are much harder to corral with fences.

During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton was hateful in his behavior to women, pathological as a liar, and deeply suspect when it came...

Others Exonerated the plebs and threw the blame upon the patricians: it was owing to their artful canvassing that the plebeians found the road to office blocked; if the plebs might have a breathing-spell from...

Kernkraftwerke hinzustellen, ohne zu wissen, wo der Atommüll endlagert werden kann, ist wie das Abziehen einer Handgranate bevor man weiss, wo man sie hinwerfen wird.

Our ‘neoconservatives’ are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person (on Margaret Thatcher)

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

Politically, Republicans and Democrats are at opposite ends. One’s a burp and the other’s a fart.

You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out.

International politics is never about democracy and human rights. It’s about the interests of states. Remember that, no matter what you are told in history lessons.

4 in 5 Americans disapprove of the job Congress is doing, which begs the question: Are 1 in 5 Americans retarded?

Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.

Stop making flamboyant promises. Earn the people’s trust first, then do more than they expect

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment in history or nothing happens.

Negotiations with Iran, especially, will not be easy under any circumstances, but I suspect that they might be somewhat less difficult if the nuclear-weapon states could show that their requests are part of a broader...

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless...

When you make love you’re using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don’t give a damn for anything. They can’t bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with...

I trust politicians to do what’s right. For themselves.

I serve the people. Am I a politician? No, I’m just a greedy and corrupt waiter.

If I run for office, my political platform will be made of wood, and it’ll be made by the people.

I’d make a great politician. I’d make it out of pig shit, so it wouldn’t be as foul as it is now.

When all the birds and all the fish join forces, the politicians will be forced to chew on and swallow their own slimy, wormlike words. But until the time that the sky and the sea...

Let’s say you’re a politician. You’re still you, but you are an elected official. In other words, in this scenario, you get to keep your intelligence, integrity, loyalty, and honesty, whereas any other politician in...

[T]he enduring problem for liberals, as for everyone else, is not whether history will judge them wise or foolish regarding the war on terrorism; it is, rather, the way that the past decade has splintered...

If there are seven people present, myself included, and there is one pizza that’s cut into eight slices, then everyone should get one slice—except for me, who should get two slices, because I didn’t pay....