politics

"Oh, when the President does it, that means that it is not illegal."

"Where government is impossible, politics is impossible."

"Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box."

"Where the progressive enlightenment sees political ideals, the dark enlightenment sees appetites. It accepts that governments are made out of people, and that they will eat well. Setting its expectati…"

"Al Qaeda has failed in its goals. The United States has succeeded, not so much in winning the war as in preventing the Islamists from winning, and, from a geopolitical perspective, that is good enough…"

"When someone asks for a government program, he is saying in effect, 'Tell the police to use their guns to get me what I want.'"

"The earlier political thinkers used the term "organization" in the broadest sense of the term, that is, with reference to the widest aspects of the patterns of political forces in a given state. Thus …"

"It is an act of evil to accept the state of evil as either inevitable or final."

"The Founders conceived government as the servant, not the master of the individual."

"Our Constitution has given us the framework for a strong nation, a Union of States; a nation of harmony between the Union and States and between the various institutions of our democratic polity. We c…"

"I'd rather cut my arm off than vote for that jerk."

"Is this the anti-gay state? Aren't you the people that voted on the anti-gay thing?"

"If men are good, you don’t need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don’t dare have one."

": Socialism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen."

"If Walter Bagehot was right that “one of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea,” Ken caused an extraordinary amount of pain. Both in his economic thinking and in his political a…"

"Thomas Dunn English at The Political Graveyard"

"Sufi Movement International: Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan"

"He was sick of this canting humbug about internationalism. Nationalism, not internationalism, was the policy for Britain."

"There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country."

"The current toxic political atmosphere, in which one side is concerned about voter fraud and the other about voter disfranchisement, is largely the product of the elephant in the parlor left over from…"