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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.

Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.

Bill Maher is anything but an impartial host. He sucks up to Hollywood liberals because A) he needs to get them back on the show, B) he usually agrees with them, and C) they tend to be wildly ignorant.

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

Bush met with former President Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter is 76 years old, or as Democrats call him 'their bright new star of the future.'

Bush is quite vulnerable if the Democrats pick the right issues. So far, though, they've shown their usual tendency to go for the capillary.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.

But if we are to retain freedom, then we can only do so by keeping the determining mass of the citizens the possessors of property with personal control over it, as individuals or as families. For property is the necessary condition of economic freedom in the full sense of that term. He that has not property is under economic servitude to him who has property, whether the possessor of it be another individual or the State.

But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.

But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the less of a state it becomes and the more a household, and the household in turn an individual.

But revealing yourself as ignorant apparently gives one extraordinary credibility on the left.

But the biggest fake of the year, Paul Begala's last smile

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

But this is the kind of ass-clownery that stems from the fact that all philosophy looks weird when you don't have one.

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.

By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American.

California is no longer a state, it's a hedge fund.

Capitalism has made it this way, old fashioned fascism will take it away.

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?

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

Clinton cannot possibly win in 2000.

Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.

Climate action is central for the future of our planet.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

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.

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.