America's One-Party System: The Party of Power

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24. That's the fishbowl I'm talking about.

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It should never be forgotten that, in the struggle between the nations, it is in the interest of each one of them that the other should be weakened by internal struggle. Hence it is always possible to pose the question of whether the parties exist by virtue of their own strength, as their own necessity, or whether rather they only exist to serve the interests of others.
- Antonio Gramsci

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
-Richard Armour,American Poet

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
-Albert Einstein

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule — and both commonly succeed, and are right.
- H.L. Mencken

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
-Stewart Udall

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom.
-Plato

Politics — I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.
- Sean O'Casey

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
-Mao Zedong

I remember you from years ago when I was a regular poster on DU, btw.