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"It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it."
"The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering."
"He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative."
"Half a truth is better than no politics."
"As I have said, the best Bush strategy is to put Congress on TV as often as possible."
"Diplomacy has more to do with (credible) threats than with sweet reason. And threats from America are a lot more credible, nowadays."
"Hmm. Petty? Yes. Ineffectual? Yes. Infuriating and off-putting? Yes. Counterproductive? Yes. It's got to be a product of the French Foreign Ministry."
"Bush is quite vulnerable if the Democrats pick the right issues. So far, though, they've shown their usual tendency to go for the capillary."
"Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general."
"I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf."
"Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best."
"If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist, nowadays."
"Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers."
"The new racism is anything that might hurt a Democrat politically."
"If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one."
"The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings ordie. For our salvation, Mr. Wilbur Wright is providing wings. He will also have to provide a new insect to use them."
"Politics is but a narrow field."
"What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all."
"Put temptation on the unenjoyment line."
"Demagogue--a vessel containing beer and other liquids."
