#Politics

"Nation needs soldiers, politics needs civilians."

"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons."

"Total paranoia is just total awareness."

"I question the equation like an equestrian, and I realize it’s horseshit. What is the equation? Vote=Change."

"I’m on a government watch list. But I’m not interested, because government watches only work twenty minutes out of every hour."

"We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic group-think in the Information Age. Knowledge is but a fingertip away."

"The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected."

"He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely."

"My dad has a dry, deadpan sense of humor, and my mom has an unexpected, wacky take on things. They really encouraged laughing at ourselves and the weirdness of situations that come up growing up in politics."

"I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics."

"The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it. They worship money and power and death. Their ideal solution to all the nation's problems would be another 100 Year War."

"All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself."

"Every country has the government it deserves."

"Nine out of ten politicians are thieves. The tenth politician is a liar, and the one who conducted the survey."

"For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them."

"There are pockets of wealth in this country. Mostly those pockets are in the politicians’ pants."

"When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs. A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some."

"The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories."

"Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul."

"No matter what argument you make against evolution, the response is Well, you know, it's possible to believe in evolution and believe in God. Yes, and it's possible to believe in Spiderman and believe in God, but that doesn't prove Spiderman is true."