politics-observation

Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another.

The difference between Nazism and Communism is just the size of the leader's moustache.

A Man Without Honoris Worse than Dead.

Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it turns backwards.

Did you know that the United States is ranked fiftieth in the world in life expectancy? And the forty-nine loser countries where they live longer than us...they live shackled to the tyranny of nonprofit health care. Here in America, you're not coughing up blood, little Bobby, you're coughing up freedom!

We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.

407Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.

The poor man is called a socialist if he believes that the wealth of the rich should be divided among the poor, but the rich man is called a financier if he devises a plan by which the pittance of the poor can be converted to his use.

When people communicate deceit, it's called politics. When people communicate honesty, it's called art.