“The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.”
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“Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.”
“Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.”
“The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.”
“Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.”
“The world is governed by opinion.”
“The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.”
“A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.”
“The most important political office is that of the private citizen.”
“In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.”
“I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.”
“The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.”
“Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.”
“Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.”
“I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.”
“The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.”
“You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.”
“The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.”
“Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.”
“The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.”
“When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.”
“The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.”
“I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.”
“It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.”