Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.
You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
War is politics by other means.
If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.
Quite obviously power will continue to play a central role in global politics as it always does. But usually there is something else.
Another problem about writing about politics in the "age of globalization" is that so much of the violence in the form of war and also in the forms of institutional violence - sweatshops, child labor, victimization of people economically - happens elsewhere and out of sight. And when we do know about it and need to witness it, it's always mediated by images of one kind or another, so you're kind of stuck trying to write about what it's like trying to be you living your life thinking about and experiencing this stuff in that way.
As a young woman in politics, it also gives me great pleasure to see additional female cabinet representation here today. You know, these are very high levels of representation for women around the cabinet table and I think that that's something that's very important to me.
Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.
Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.
The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input.
But this is the kind of ass-clownery that stems from the fact that all philosophy looks weird when you don't have one.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.
Politics swings like a pendulum.
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Everywhere I go on the campaign trail, I meet voters with a real thirst for a healthy discussion of the issues. Ultimately, people don't care whether an issue comes from the left or the right. What they want to talk about are ideas that lift America up and make us better. It's what I call 'Vertical Politics'.