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A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.

Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

A Diogenesian search for an honest person would rarely lead to the author of a memoir.

A discourse for broad-based political change is crucial for developing a politics that speaks to a future that can provide sustainable jobs, decent health care, quality education and communities of solidarity and support for young people.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.

Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life

A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.

A feat - of access and of passionate and appropriately unsettling political commentary.

Afghanistan has other enormous challenges as well, including a political system that is still very much developing, although there has been some progress in the past several years.

A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

A foreigner is an individual who is considered either comic or sinister. When the victim of a disaster - preferably natural but sometimes political -the foreigner may also be pitied from a distance for a short period of time.

African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against her very existence. Strike down the institution of African slavery and you reduce the South to depopulation and barbarism.

After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.

A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.

after a generation or two of shedding the deliberate political encumbrances to war ... of dropping Congress from the equation altogether, of super-empowering the presidency with total war-making power and with secret new war-making resources that answer to no one but him, of insulating the public from not only the cost of war but sometimes even the knowledge that it's happened - war making has become almost an autonomous function of the American state. It never stops.

After a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by the force of mediocrity, which can easily master enough of the star techniques to produce inoffensive personalities and enough of the rational vocabulary to create the sounds of competence.

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

After multiple trips to Paris and being accused of participating in 'heinous' activities in regard to the state, I found my Romanian nationality revoked by 'presidential decree' in 1975. Because I hadn't asked for political asylum like everyone else, I had to live and travel with the infamous Nansen Passport from then on. This wasn't easy...I finally obtained my French citizenship in 1983.

After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

After political crusades for 'affordable housing' ended up ruining the housing market and much of the economy with it, many of the same politicians are now carrying on a crusade for 'affordable health care.' But what you can afford has absolutely nothing to do with the cost of producing anything. Refusing to pay those costs means that you are just not going to continue getting the same quantity and quality - regardless of what any politician says or how well he says it.

After the second chapter of Days of Obligation, which is about the death of a friend of mine from AIDS, was published in Harper's, I got this rather angry letter from a gay-and-lesbian group that was organizing a protest against the magazine. It was the same old problem: political groups have almost no sense of irony.

A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer.

Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged.

... after you have once ridden behind a motorcycle escort, you are never the same again

A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.

A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

A grievance is a political action. It's not just African-Americans.

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.