A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee – working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

In our age there is no such thing as ‚keeping out of politics.‘ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

There is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception.

Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it’s direction you get in His Word or something He’s specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.

The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

I’m not a big politics guy.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don’t get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

I’m not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together. In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it’s the recording or the performance side.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

I don’t write policy for my government.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

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.

Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you’re working with; otherwise, you’re not gonna come out with something that’s really you.

I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.