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“Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.”
“Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.”
“Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.”
“I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the pa...”
“Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.”
“They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making them putty in the hands of their rulers, just like...”
“Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.”
“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.”
“Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective. Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible un...”
“The girl with dark hair was coming towards them across the field. With what seemed a single movement she tore off her clothes and flung them disdainfully aside. Her body was white and smooth, but i...”
“Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.”
“The country is dying cause of an lack of men, not a lack of programms.”
“All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.”
“Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.”
“A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.”
“...When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii and hand over our power, we are not acting like true Americans. Indeed, at tho...”
“Its a saying from thousands of years ago, written in a language called Latin about a place called Rome, he explains. Panem et Circenses translates into Bread and Circuses. The writer was saying tha...”
“I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.”
“The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.”
“Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.”
