In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport. Dick Gregory
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. Louis D. Brandeis
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows. Edward Koch
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President I'm beginning to believe it. Clarence Darrow
America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but restoration. Warren G. Harding
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. Ross Perot
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. Thurgood Marshall
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. John W. Gardner
You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord. Barbara Bush
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. John Kenneth Galbraith
You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt. Daniel Hannan
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. John Kenneth Galbraith
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. Charles de Gaulle
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. John W. Gardner
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. Woodrow Wilson