If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.
I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.
First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.
I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris
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