In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

I had a dream about you. You were storing my brain in a pickle jar in the fridge, and I only discovered it when I went to garnish my hamburger. Mindless and hungry, I was a US politician's ideal voter.

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Civic virtue is not best justified in terms of fair play in a cooperative enterprise for mutual advantage, because citizenship is not a strictly reciprocal relationship in which people receive benefits in proportion to their contributions, but a joint relationship that realizes the common good of freedom and self-government.

Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.