“Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.”– Winston Churchill Related Quotes “It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another. By the standards of the early twentieth century, even a member of the Inner Party lives an austere, laborious kind of life. Nevertheless, the few luxuries that he does enjoy his large, well-appointed flat, the better texture of his clothes, the better quality of his food and drink and tobacco, his two or three servants, his private motor-car or helicopter—set him in a different world from a member of the Outer Party, and the members of the Outer Party have a similar advantage in comparison with the submerged masses whom we call ‘the proles’.”— George Orwell “Well, purity – there’s no purity in politics.”– Jim DeMint “We must, together as a nation, stop watching Fox.”— Jon Stewart