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In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave.

In the present state of human society, however, We deem it advisable that the wage-contract should, when possible, be modified somewhat by a contract of partnership, as is already being tried in various ways to the no small gain both of the wage-earners and of the employers. In this way wage-earners are made sharers in some sort in the ownership, or the management, or the profits.

In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we have travelled over, but frequently neglect to gather up experiences as we go.

In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.

In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

In war the first casualty is the truth.

In volunteer politics, a builder can build faster than a destroyer can destroy.

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

In your heart there is innocence waiting to be free.

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

I oppose registration for the draft... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom.

I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue.

I probably had 150 meetings with Trent Lott. He has said exactly as many racist things to me as Bill Clinton has, which is to say zero.

Iraq has not been disarmed 100 percent [but] in terms of what they [Iraqis] have accomplished there are no meaningful weapons or weapons production capability in Iraq today.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions. God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face!

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

I say one evil empire down...one to go.

I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.

I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.

I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks.

I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all inducements, against all supposed limitations of great interests, against all combinations, against all compromises.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless.

I still recall the excitement & patriotic fervour in Kargil when Tiger Hill was won.

I still have that new senator smell.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

It costs us $1 million for every troop[soldier] in Afghanistan.

It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

I think that some restriction on speech is appropriate.

It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is entirely within the charmed circle of woman's sphere; but for women to occupy any of those official seats would be degrading.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

I think the country has had enough Bushes.

It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.

It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.

It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

It is beter to live 50 years as a tiger rather than live 100 years as a chicken

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

It is easier to run a revolution than a government.

It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.

It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.

It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.

It is not because a part of the government is elective, that makes it less a despotism, if the persons so elected, possess afterwards, as a parliament, unlimited powers. Election, in this case, becomes separated from representation, and the candidates are candidates for despotism.

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.