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We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights.
Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
I am an optimist. If I ever quit being an optimist, I guess I'll become a Republican.
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
[Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.
Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.
When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
They don't respect us, so let's surprise them, we'll drop the big one, pulverize them.
When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
The Left loves the poor so much it creates more of them every time it gets into power.
It's the last best trick of a losing Democrat, is to accuse the Republicans of racism.
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.
There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.
If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.
If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.
He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.
It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
He plead insanity like they do now all the time. Sir, what would you have done in 1859?
... after you have once ridden behind a motorcycle escort, you are never the same again
A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.
For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.
The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.
It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.
the struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.
"Government," says Swift, "is a plain thing, and fitted to the capacity of many heads."
Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.
Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
Why is the United States behaving so arrogantly? All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil.
We are not in politics to ignore peoples' worries, we are in politics to deal with them.
The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.
I believe everyone here has a right to speak out on politics as effectively as possible.
I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.
Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself.
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you.
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.
Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'
We can seize this future together because we are not as divided as our politics suggests.