The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
From Theodore White
If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
I class myself as a manual laborer.
I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.
The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.
A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.
With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.
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