“I’m so tired of masks. I’m so tired of smiling when there is no reason to smile and being accustomed to saying I’m doing good when someone asks. I’m tired of politicians putting up fronts to get our votes and then leaving us to fend for ourselves as soon as they get elected.”— Lauren Hogg, twitter.com
“I have no sympathy for these people that are in this administration who know it is wrong what they’re doing on so many fronts but they tend to not want to confront this president. For these members of his cabinet who remain and try to defend him they’re not going to be able to go to a restaurant, th…”— Maxine Waters, theslot.jezebel.com
“We always said the gun should be led by politics. They’ve come into politics now.”— Robert Mugabe, theindependent.co.zw
“We're part of a generation of liberals that aren't good at arguing for the things we (on a moral-emotional level) assume to be true. Assuming we were on the 'right side of history' has often made our ideas less interesting and creative than those of young right-of-center writers”— Shadi Hamid, twitter.com
“yes. crossing the border without documentation is illegal. being black without a white owner was illegal. walking into a whites only restaurant was illegal. in germany, being a jewish person was illegal. without ethics, laws are just the stories we tell to justify horror.”— isi breen, twitter.com
“There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.”— Emma Goldman, amazon.com
“If those men are ignorant, why should they have a share in so important a thing as Government? They may know all about beer, and wool, and iron — but perhaps they can only judge what is good for themselves, not what is best for the whole country, with all its rich and poor. I do not think that only…”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”— Thomas Sowell, amazon.com
“For everybody and every thing conspire to make me as contented as possible in it; yet I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.”— Martha Washington, amazon.com
“'But the people choose their own rulers,' remarked Errington reflectively. 'Ah, the poor people!' sighed Thelma. 'They know so very little, and they are taught so badly! I think they never do quite understand what they do want — they are the same in all histories — like little children, they get bew…”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“There's certainly too much beer represented in the House — I admit that. But, after all, trade is the great moving-spring of national prosperity — and it would hardly be fair to refuse seats to the very men who help to keep the country going.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“We can no longer look to traditional leadership for any hope of salvation. We have of late experienced one diplomatic and political congress after another; has any one of these brought the solution any nearer?”— Fridtjof Nansen, nobelprize.org
“There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.”— Martin Van Buren, amazon.com
“The President under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies.”— Martin Van Buren, amazon.com
“I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.”— Martin Van Buren, amazon.com
“The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.”— Martin Van Buren, amazon.com
“As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.”— Martin Van Buren, amazon.com
“Chess is for those who intend to form republics. All the worry and calculation — all the moves of pawns, bishops, knights, castles, and queen, all to shelter the throne which is not worth protecting!”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Diplomacy requires patience and flexibility. Those who practice the craft must understand the difference between rhetoric and facts. They must study their allies and their adversaries. It has never bean the realm for the impulsive, the thin-skinned or the feckless.”— Dan Rather, twitter.com