Politics Quotes
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say. It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America. It's time for the human race to enter the solar system. Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back! Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. 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. My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. My dog can bark like a congressman, fetch like an aide, beg like a press secretary and play dead like a receptionist when the phone rings. My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right. My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote. Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action. Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois. Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
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