Thought for Today

"There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour."

~~~~~ Benjamin Disraeli

Thought for Today

"It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellow men."

~~~~~ George MacDonald

Thought for Today

"In politics the middle way is none at all."

~~~~~ John Adams

Thought for Today

"You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain."

~~~~~ Stanley Baldwin

Thought for Today

"Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons."

~~~~~ Joseph Cannon

Thought for Today

"Logic sometimes has very little to do with political action."

~~~~~ Alexander Mackenzie

Thought for Today

"It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellow men."

~~~~~ George MacDonald

Thought for Today

"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."

~~~~~ Thomas Jefferson

Thought for Today

"It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellow men."

~~~~~ George MacDonald

Thought for Today

"Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle – that of obedience to their superiors."

~~~~~ Wendell Phillips

Thought for Today

"Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them."

~~~~~ John George Nicolay

Thought for Today

"It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellow men."

~~~~~ George MacDonald

Erin Bonsteel's Take on Last Night's Debate

Thought for Today

"There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour."

~~~~~ Benjamin Disraeli

Thought for Today

"It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellow men."

~~~~~ George MacDonald

Thought for Today

"It is my duty to leave nothing undone that I may lawfully do, to pull down this administration... They who, from indifference, or with their eyes open, persist in hugging the traitor to their bosom, deserve to be insulted... deserve to be slaves, with no other music to soothe them but the clank of the chains which they have put on themselves and given to their offspring."

~~~~~ John Randolph (in reference to President John Quincy Adams [1826])

Thought for Today

"The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy."

~~~~~ Theodore White

Thought for Today

"The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job."

~~~~~ John Podhoretz

Thought for Today

"In general President Obama's policies have been very, very skewed and very, very extreme. Like on healthcare for example, I don't think that trying to ram healthcare through was a smart idea politically, because he wasted a lot of capital and now he doesn't have any of that same capital with even his own party that he used to have."

~~~~~ Jonathan Krohn

Sarah Palin at the Long Island Association

On Thursday, February 17, 2011, Sarah Palin sat down for a one-hour Q&A at the monthly meeting of the Long Island Association. Her questioner was Kevin Law, a Democrat. Watch -- and judge for yourself.

(Note: After she’s announced until she sits down, there is no sound. The sound comes back on as soon as the Q&A begins. It was probably a matter of switching on the microphones. Other than the applause when she sits down, there is nothing missing.)