Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness... &
... Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.