“If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.”
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“Politics have no relation to morals.”
“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.”
“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”
“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.”
“Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.”
“A healthy democracy requires a decent society it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.”
“I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.”
“There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.”
“Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.”
“In politics the middle way is none at all.”
“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.”
“A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.”
“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.”
“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
“Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.”
“Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.”
“Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.”
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
“Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.”
“One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.”
“Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.”
“In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.”
“If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.”