I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.