“Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the ...” — Brooks Adams Quote

“Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”

“One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”

“The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand.”

“When you have the ball in your hand, you're the most important guy in the whole organization.”

“I think that, you know, when we start talking about the Tea Party, people want to marginalize that into some kind of organization or party, but it really isn't.”

“All the great organizations in the world, all have a sense of why that organization does what it does.”