politics Quotes

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Reporters thrive on the world’s misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

The world is governed by opinion.

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they’re dead.

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

It is a measure of the framers’ fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.