A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.
By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.
I think every good Christian ought to kick (Rev. Jerry) Falwell right in the ass.
I think every good Christian ought to kick (Rev. Jerry) Falwell's ass.
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in 'A,' 'B,' 'C' and 'D.' Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
I've got my own Medicare plan. I've got an intern for a son-in-law.
If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of (chasing women) and drinking, you'd have no government.
If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
In fact, I can say that this is the one statement that I will make now that in the years to come I will not have to retract. I love my fellow man be he white or black or yellow and I am vitally interested in his well being, for that well being is my well being.
It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the (Republican) party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.
My faith in the future rests squarely on the belief that man, if he doesn't first destroy himself, will find new answers in the universe, new technologies, new disciplines, which will contribute to a vastly different and better world in the twenty-first century.
Our country, of course, was born on the very simple idea that freedom is our only cause, and that freedom was not given to us by government.
Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternative.
Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don't have to be good at them to enjoy them.
Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.
Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.
To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.
To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
When you say 'radical right' today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye.
Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
Wholehearted devotion to liberty is unassailable and half-hearted devotion to justice is indefensible.
You don't need to be 'straight' to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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