Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

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

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

The idea that putting Americans ‚first‘ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

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

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

I am such a political person.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

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.

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.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

‚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.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

That government is best which governs least.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

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.

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

And frankly, I don’t understand – I mean, I’m obviously a card-carrying Democrat – but I can’t understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‚array‘ as far as political purposes were concerned.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.