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Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions. God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face!

I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.

I say one evil empire down...one to go.

I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks.

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.

I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all inducements, against all supposed limitations of great interests, against all combinations, against all compromises.

...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

I still recall the excitement & patriotic fervour in Kargil when Tiger Hill was won.

I still have that new senator smell.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

It costs us $1 million for every troop[soldier] in Afghanistan.

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

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

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is entirely within the charmed circle of woman's sphere; but for women to occupy any of those official seats would be degrading.

I wonder if it's possible to be a Republican and a Christian at the same time.

It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.

It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

It is not because a part of the government is elective, that makes it less a despotism, if the persons so elected, possess afterwards, as a parliament, unlimited powers. Election, in this case, becomes separated from representation, and the candidates are candidates for despotism.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

It is not socialist, as some of our critics contend. It isn't purely capitalist, either. It is a new way. A third way. A more humane, trusting, productive, exhilarating, and, in every sense, rewarding way.

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.

It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital.

it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

It is therefore our business to restore economic freedom through the restoration of the only institution under which it flourishes, which institution is Property. The problem before us is, how to restore Property so that it shall be, as it was not so long ago, a general institution.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.

It occurs to us that so-called "freedom fries" kill many more Americans than terrorists ever do.

It's an article of faith in Tinseltown: when liberals get mired in scandal, it's because they are tragically flawed; when conservatives get in trouble, it's because they are evil.

It's easier to criticize somebody else, than to see yourself.

It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.

It's me who is my enemy Me who beats me up Me who makes the monsters Me who strips my confidence.

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

It's so much more fun to watch FOX when it's someone else being blitzed & sacked!

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

It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions.

It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second one

It will be impossible to put these principles into practice unless the non-owning workers through industry and thrift advance to the state of possessing some little property.

It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.