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Centralize property in the hands of a few and the millions are under bondage to property - a bondage as absolute and deplorable as if their limbs were covered with manacles. Abstract all property from the hands of labor and you thereby reduce labor to dependence; and that dependence becomes as complete a servitude as the master could fix upon his slave.

Certainly, I know what to do, and when I am Vice President -- and I will be -- there will be contingency plans under different sets of situations and I tell you what, I'm not going to go out and hold a news conference about it. I'm going to put it in a safe and keep it there! Does that answer your question?

Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.

Climate action is central for the future of our planet.

Clinton cannot possibly win in 2000.

Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.

Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.

Comfort the weak and feel the poor. What on earth do we need government for?

Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.

Companionate Conservatism - Making the streets safer before people are kicked out onto them.

Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all

Concerned we're in a time where politicians can't even fake sincerity. Aren't they supposed to be good at that?

Congress should not be like the Super Bowl where you have to have one team that's going to win and another team that's going to be a loser.

Congress' dynastic politics has shattered the hopes & aspirations of people. Congress hides behind the veil of secularism whenever its governance falters and its misconduct is exposed. This will no longer go unchallenged. The younger generation will not accept these actions of Congress!

Congress meets tomorrow morning. Let us all pray: Oh Lord, give us strength to bear that which is about to be inflicted upon us. Be merciful with them, oh Lord, for they know not what they're doing. Amen.

Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself.

Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you

Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more were desperate for want of employment?

Conservatives want to be your daddy, telling you what to do and what not to do. Liberals want to be your mommy, feeding you, tucking you in, and wiping your nose. Libertarians want to treat you as an adult.

Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.

Constitution is for the people, people are not for the constitution. Change it for the betterment of the common man.

Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.

Cuba seems to have the same effect on US administrations as the full moon has on werewolves.

Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.

Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Currency warfare is the most destructive form of economic warfare.

Damn Americans. I hate those bastards.

Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.

Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.

Dear Mr. President, can I ask you a question, when the bombs fall down will they hurt everyone in my family?

DELEGATION, n. In American politics, an article of merchandise that comes in sets.

Demagogue--a vessel containing beer and other liquids.

Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the Democrats gave up.

Democrats haven't been this upset about an American engaging in free speech since Juanita Broaddrick opened her yap.

Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race.

Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.

Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers.

Dennis Kucinich's politics are more scrambled than Rod Steiger's dream journal.

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.