In politics merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised like a target to a position to be fired at.

The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.

Politics is human beings it's addition rather than subtraction.

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

If a politician murders his mother the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

Frankly I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

Justice sir is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.