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If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.
There are two things that you have to lie to get through. One is politics, and the other is marriage.
Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.
No one's gonna sympathize when we crash, they'll say you hit what you head for, you get what you ask.
What are truck rental companes and fertilizer salesman goign to do in response to the OK city bombing?
France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.
Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.
Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."
Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.
More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.
The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.
At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
I've been told to keep my remarks relatively brief. I understand Quayle-hunting season begins at noon.
I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.
Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.
POW 369, I should salute you from this heart of mine. And thank you for placing your life on the line.
Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.
If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.
With all respect to Mr. Jefferson, I would put the pursuit of wisdom ahead of the pursuit of happiness.
No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied.
Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.
I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue.
Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.
Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.
If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative.
This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.
I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.
If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem.
Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.
It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
Osama, yo Mama didn't raise you right. When you were young, she must have wrapped your turban too tight.
I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property.
Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused.