I’ve been to war, and it’s not easy to kill. It’s bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don’t know what they are conserving.
The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
A politician will do anything to keep his job – even become a patriot.
You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don’t get much else in that job.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends… that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
The world is governed by opinion.
There might be some serious fun in politics.
A free America… means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.
It is a measure of the framers’ fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it’s a sport.
Party honesty is party expediency.
I can’t let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.
The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
And after I make a lot of money, I’ll be able to afford running for office.
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
In politics nothing is contemptible.
