What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.
I think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.
The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.
Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.
I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.
Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.
I will cling to the rope God has thrown me in Jesus Christ, even when my numb hands can no longer feel it.
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.
Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.
...ordinary experience has to be made extraordinary in order to become accessible to reflection.
... a surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence. Page 115
There's nothing more exciting than ideas.
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.
