Not in My Backyard (NIMBY) does not work. Opiate addicts live in our communities and in our families & they work in our businesses.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling...

He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run.

It's all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the perfect man gets a bellyache?

If I have to describe potential of India-China ties I will say INCH (India and China) towards MILES (Millennium of Exceptional Synergy)

Hubert Humphrey is a treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and sent out with the Japanese current.

This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars—they would think the country has gone insane.

I already see what kind of man he is, this Valentin. The sort who will adduce an array of liberal reasons for voting for a conservative.

politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

If you really want to enter politics wash your hands off business Thaksin Shinawatra tycoon and former Thai PM on business and politics

Three things at least they [good politicians] must require; the first is back-bone; the second is back-bone; and the third is back-bone.

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

Social change doesn’t happen overnight: It takes decades for momentum to build and for the once-radical edge to become mainstream.

There aren’t two political parties in this country, it’s all just one big party—and the citizens aren’t invited.

President Kennedy’s eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson’s hammer blows are designed to make men act.