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Miliband Minor’s new generation of Labour politicians will not be consistently, wholeheartedly Left-wing: they will not be consistently anything. They will be incoherent, self-contradictory, having-it-all-ways opportunists.

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting. God save the United States and this Honorable Court!

I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

The aim of public education is not to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. ... Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim ... is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

I hereby declare that I would rather be ruled by the Tea Party than by the Democratic Party, and I would rather have Sarah Palin sitting in the Oval Office than Barack Obama.

Roald Dahl... well known for his children's books, as well as writings dealing with the dark, bizarre side of human nature, such as "Tales of the Unexpected," had his own dark and unexpected side: he was a blatant and admitted anti-Semite.

Now the Senate is looking for 'moderate' judges, 'mainstream' judges. What in the world is a moderate interpretation of a constitutional text? Halfway between what it says and what we'd like it to say?

Condoleezza Rice, the coolest, cleverest, most powerful black woman since Cleopatra.

The fact is that this war is about freedom, justice - and oil. It's called multitasking.

The new enemies of America, and of the west in general, believe that these countries promote too much autonomy, freedom and justice. They are the opposite of socialism even more than they are the opposite of capitalism.

The volunteers in Afghanistan and Iraq are the idealists of today, and the people who want the "boys" (they're not boys, BTW, they're men) brought home are total cynics. They'd be cheering Chamberlain if he was around today, the creeps.

I'd rather be an armchair warrior... than an armchair appeaser any day of the week.

People who volunteer to go into war zones, be it as fighters or as doctors, are not misguided and ignorant – they are simply far braver and more selfless than the rest of us.