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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

If you're in politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Propaganda is always rather nauseating. But before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're going to get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

The news of any politician's death should be listed under "Public Improvements.

As in political, so in literary action, a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices.

Any -year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any -year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Away with the cant of "Measures, not men!" -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

When Stalin signed a nonagression pact with Hitler the American left behaved like an anthill struck by lightning.

One can advance in the Catholic hierarchy if one can deliver a higher malarkey.

Aries is Caesar. Caesar is the detonater. Caesar is the diaspora.