No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

What is the one country in the Middle East that has not been attacked by ISIS? One. That is Iran. That is more than happenstance, I’m sure.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

There is no gambling like politics.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama’s entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.

There’s no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, ‚The government’s corrupt,‘ and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

‚Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.‘ Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

Trump has no sense of shame.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

There’s no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.