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The only truly shocking thing about last Tuesday's election is that the Democrats didn't do far worse, or as badly as they deserved.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

The passing of Marxism-Leninism first from China and then from the Soviet Union will mean its death as a living ideology ... . For while there may be some isolated true believers left in places like Managua, Pyongyang, or Cambridge, MA.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that

The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it.

The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

The personal is political.

The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.

The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

The political is personal.

The point is to make the pie grow faster and distribute the new growth more equitably.

The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.

The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.

The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling.

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.

The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors...Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer effects.

There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.

The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.

The problem: Democrats have to drop their stupid class-warfare rhetoric. With 74 million Americans owning stock in one form or another, anything which helps them can't be derided as a sop to the rich.

The problem is, we have yet to convince the Taliban they are fellow passengers on spaceship Earth.

The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

The purpose of finance is to enable business to acquire the ownership of capital instruments before it has saved the funds to buy and pay for them. The logic used by business in investing is things that will pay for themselves is not today available to the 95% born without capital. Most of us owe instead of own. And the less the economy needs our labor, the less able we are to "save" our way to capital ownership.

The question is not whether or not there should be a cult of the individual, but rather whether or not the individual concerned represents the truth, if he does then he should be worshiped.

The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.

There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.

There are lots more people in the House. I don't know exactly - I've never counted, but at least a couple hundred.

There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

There are no free lunches on welfare.

There aren't many idealists in politics.

The press lives on disaster.

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

The problem of abolishing want is not a problem in division, as the politicians so often aver; it is a problem of multiplication.

The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.

The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.

The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

There ain't no good guys, there ain't no bad guys, there's only you and me, and we just disagree.

There are but three political-economic roads from which we can choose... We could take the first course and further exacerbate the already concentrated ownership of productive capital in the American economy. Or we could join the rest of the world by taking the second path, that of nationalization. Or we can take the third road, establishing policies to diffuse capital ownership broadly, so that many individuals, particularly workers, can participate as owners of industrial capital. The choice is ours.

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to achieve the best within them.

There are no true friends in politics.

There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.

There are two things that you have to lie to get through. One is politics, and the other is marriage.

There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.

Therefore those governing the State ought primarily to devote themselves to the service of individual groups and of the whole commonwealth, and through the entire scheme of laws and institutions to cause both public and individual well-being to develop spontaneously out of the very structure and administration of the state.