Politics(235)

"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote."
George Jean Nathan

"My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote."
Sandra Day O'Connor

"It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren."
Sandra Day O'Connor

"It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself."
Sandra Day O'Connor

"We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result."
Sandra Day O'Connor

"Political theory provides a common language with which people in this town communicate with each other."
Kirk O'Donnell

"You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job."
Thomas P. O'Neill

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."
P. J. O'Rourke

"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."
P. J. O'Rourke

"Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?"
Robert Orben