Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.

Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

It may be long before the law of love will be recognized in international affairs. The machinery's of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.