Politics Quotes - Page 50

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative.

Never did anyone ever stay longer than ten years because the resistance grows fiercer as your presence grows longer [in Afghanistan]. I don't think we are going to be any exception. What made us exempt from history?

It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders.

The wage earner relies upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he can neither prey on the misfortune of others nor hoard his labor.

It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents.

The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality.

Just be glad you don't live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or as it is in Iran, totally illegal.

The only truly shocking thing about last Tuesday's election is that the Democrats didn't do far worse, or as badly as they deserved.

Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.

Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?

If you're in the penaut business you learn to think small.

[Mondale] was not born; he was appointed.

Jesse Jackson has to get back to "I am somebody" instead of "I am some color."

Leaders often find themselves temporarily alone.

It's the last best trick of a losing Democrat, is to accuse the Republicans of racism.

It is beter to live 50 years as a tiger rather than live 100 years as a chicken

The government bugged the men's room in the local disco lounge.

More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.

I do not like to call myself a Liberal, because there is so much that is wrong with liberalism. I also do not like to call my a Conservative for exactly the same reason. The fact that the theater of conservativism today seems to be such a haven for such an abundance of small minded, non-thinking, irrationalists is however making it very difficult for me to not adopt a harder stance.

All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others.

Gratitude is not a normal feature of political life.

Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise and fear.

I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.