Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules – politics has no rules.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
The first resistance to social change is to say it’s not necessary.
Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician’s objective. Election and power are.
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
People say satire is dead. It’s not dead; it’s alive and living in the White House.
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
