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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you’re rich.
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.