A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
When a politician says the debate is over, you can be sure of two things; the debate is raging; and he's losing it.
All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.
The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint.
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
All politicians are to some extent salesmen.
When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling on and not going swimmingly for his side.
On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful awareness of life's incongruities. It is a gentling awareness, and no politician without it should be allowed near power.
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