politics Quotes

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.

Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.