In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.

Fear is just another word for ignorance.

There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.

October is the cruelest month of any election year, but by then, the pain is so great that even the strong are like jelly and time has lost all meaning for anybody still involved in a political campaign. By that time, even candidates running unopposed have abandoned all hope of victory and live only for the day when they will finally be free to seek vengeance on all those treacherous bastards who once passed themselves off as loyal friends and allies and swore they were only in it because they all shared the same hopes and dreams.

He had come so far from himself that I don't think he knew who he was anymore.

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.

It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.