Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.

A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?

First I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals.

Alliance - in international politics the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

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.

Their very conservatism is secondhand and they don't know what they are conserving.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights we'll be called a democracy.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.