“The Republicans may be better off without an agenda. They don’t scare people.”

Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.

Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.