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

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

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

People were asleep, but I think they’re waking up now. Trump has given everybody a good kick, and people are waking up and realizing they’ve got to get involved.

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

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

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

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

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.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

The FBI should not be a political body.

It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.

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

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

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

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won’t tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, ‚Well, you know: It’s secret.‘

I am such a political person.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

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.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

I am not a crook.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

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!

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

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

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

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.

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

As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

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

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

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.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

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

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

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

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

The fundamental question I believe is, ‚Is political Islam in our best interest?‘ If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?