I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.

Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

People revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

Every communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.

I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.