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"Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party."
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"Once the principals in their party are seated, with those lower on the totem pole left to grumble and move on to find another table, our once-cozy booth transforms into a damp fusion of vacuous wretchedness, with the three women all complaining alternately about their wet hair/clothes and their respective distance from Talon, while the man himself is trying to maneuver his Paul Bunyan frame way too close to me."
"I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat."
"I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic."
"So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it."
"The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish."
"The party of Lincoln should be reaching out to blacks, Hispanics gays and so forth and so on."
"One individual doesn't really accept the pro-life position of the party, and the other... says he supports it and takes a position that is logically inconsistent."
"I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away."
"We don't want to deal with a separatist party."
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"The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence."
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"The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business."
"Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon."
"In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents."
"What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority."
"It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most."
"The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race."
"Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible."
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