"Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few."
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"If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public."
"Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy."
"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel."
"The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue."
"If you read angry political blogs, substitute Obama with my daddy and you'll usually learn a lot about the author."
"It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best."
"A majority is always better than the best repartee."
"Principle is ever my motto, no expediency."
"Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?"
"Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself."
"A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory."
"Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics."
"Woe to that land that's governed by a child."
"I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded."
"The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate."
"He's a politician. That's a notch below child molester."
"Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now."
"Gossip is easy, politics is hard."
"If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy."