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The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress.

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him.

The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.

These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.

These tanks were like a good rent-a-car.

The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.

The smile of a politician is strong and friendly, but noncommittal.

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings ordie. For our salvation, Mr. Wilbur Wright is providing wings. He will also have to provide a new insect to use them.

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.

The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.

the struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.

The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results.

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

The thing is, I hate political comedy. I personally loathe it.

The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.

The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property.

The totalitarian toil-state originates in the propertylessness of the majority.

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.

.......the truth is, while the FBI is hiding behind the 5th Amendment, the Unabomer is qualifying for Social Security as a terrorist. Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.

The universal methodology of the tyrant is always incrementalism.

The truth is France has been the chief Western advocate of normalizing relations with Iraq - one of its largest trading partners - for years, partly because France holds billions in IOUs from Iraq that wouldn't be redeemable by a new regime.

The United States abd usually be reiled on to do the right thing, but only after they have tried all the other alternatives.

The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate.

The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

The wage earner relies upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he can neither prey on the misfortune of others nor hoard his labor.

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

The "Ways & Means Committee" is a committee that's supposed to find the Ways to divide up the Means.

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

The way to have power is to take it.

The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.

The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it.

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations–great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

The world is a dangerous place to live

The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.