“If you listen to the news, read the news, you'd think we were still in a recession. Well, we're not in a recession. We've had growth; people need to know that. They need to be more upbeat, more positive.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsNeedsWellsStillsPoliticsGrowthNewsRecessionsUpbeat Author:Dan Quayle
“The mere fact that so many who espouse such far-right views and beliefs still exist in this society is incarnate proof that Darwin's theories apply solely to biological processes and not to processes of the spirit.” StillsFactsSpiritPoliticsBeliefProcessViewsTheoryMereProofThis Society Author:Derek R. Audette
“It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes.” ThinkingWritingStillsHardPoliticsHeroPoliticianRange Author:Robert Novak
“This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.” StillsCountryShowsPoliticalPoliticsNationsAidsSpiteSurvivedPolitical WillBunk Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties
“You know, we had the elections earlier in the week, and a dead woman, in Pennsylvania, somehow was on the ballot and she was elected to city council. A dead woman actually elected! And I'm thinking, well, I guess there is still hope for Al Gore.” ThinkingKnowsWellsStillsPoliticsCitiesWeekElectionAlsCouncilGoreBallotsPennsylvaniaCity Council Author:David Letterman
“Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even be mentioned. For how can it be mentioned without damaging the respect which it inspires? Still further, morality and political economy must be taught from the point of view of this law; from the supposition that it must be a just law merely because it is a law. Another effect of this tragic perversion of the law is that it gives an exaggerated importance to political passions and conflicts, and to politics in general.” IfsGivingStillsFormLawPoliticalPassionPoliticsViewsEconomyEffectsInspireTaughtMoralityConflictImportanceSlaveryPoint Of ViewOppressionTragicMonopolySanctionsExaggeratedPerversionRobberyPolitical EconomySupposition Author:Frederic Bastiat