“A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.”
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“Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.”
“The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.”
“While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.”
“It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.”
“Everything about my politics has been about the future.”
“Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.”
“The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.”
“Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.”
“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.”
“Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.”
“Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.”
“I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.”
“One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.”
“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.”
“The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.”
“If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.”
“Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.”
“Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.”
“When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.”
“In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.”
“My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.”
“I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.”
“You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.”