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Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

Never underestimate the ego of a politician.

Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm.

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.

...Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences.

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.

Nobody's madder than me about the website not working as well as it should, which means it's going to get fixed.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

...nobody would think of asking the U.N. General Assembly what it thinks because it is dominated by nations with no power and less legitimacy

Nobody told me when I became a Democrat that that involved opposition to lower taxes.

No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

No man is fit to be a Senator...unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition.

No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.

No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.

No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.

No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.

No one's gonna sympathize when we crash, they'll say you hit what you head for, you get what you ask.

No party is as bad as its leaders.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.

Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative.

Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise and fear.

Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Nothing disturbs me more than the downward trend of productivity in our nation today. The consequences of a decrease in productivity are a diminished standard of living, higher labor costs, less competitive prices, and more inflation.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

Nothing drives your opponents more crazy than being utterly reasonable. And nothing makes demonizing or delegitimizing your opponents easier than letting them shriek unreasonable things for you. The Republicans need to get back to being the party that elicits unreasonable shrieking from their opponents. Not the other way around.

....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.

Nothing in politics is ever so good or as bad as it first appears.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

No torture has yet been devised that could get a liberal to mention the poor, beleaguered Kurds dancing in the streets because Saddam is gone.

No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied.

[Obamacare] has to be enforced because nobody wants it. This is the nature of progressive government they don't care if it's not good for you. It's good for them.

Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly.

Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

Now watch what you say or they'll be calling you radical, liberal, fanatical, criminal.