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"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."
"Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake."
"Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel."
"The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property."
"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions."
"We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society."
"There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour."
"If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem."
"I went to the UN and even the guidebook was spineless."
"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars."
"Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake."
"It's easier to criticize somebody else, than to see yourself."
"Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose."
"The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be."
"In politics, nothing is contemptible."
"Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in."
"The Aryan stock is bound to triumph."
"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination."
"I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'."