Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

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

People do not make wars; governments do.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

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

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

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

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

There are some members of the House leadership whose only mission in life is to demonize the president.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn’t think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

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

I’ve rarely kept my distance from kind of – I don’t know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, ‚Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.‘

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.

How can a president not be an actor?

I don’t follow politics much.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

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.

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

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

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!

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

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

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

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

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

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.