I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

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

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

We were poor, but we smiled.

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on. That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‚election.‘

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Empire and liberty.

The FBI should not be a political body.

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

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

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

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Political courage is not political suicide.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

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

The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.

Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

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

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

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.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

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.