The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

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 think governments can’t do much.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

A President cannot always be popular.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

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

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

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

I don’t even know what the issues are. I haven’t paid attention to politics in a long time. It’s actually not something that I really even enjoy. It’s way off my radar.

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

I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

The ‚morality of compromise‘ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

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

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

The Democratic position seems to be everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free kittens, I don’t know.

That government is best which governs least.

Although we resolutely supported the armed struggle against Batista’s tyranny, we were, on principle, opposed to any terrorist action that could cause the death of innocent people.

Food Stamp recipients didn’t cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

I’m personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I’m not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Democracy is a daring concept – a hope that we’ll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

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

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

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

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

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?

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

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.

El Salvador is a democracy so it’s not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans… I have heard a single voice.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

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.‘

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Politics is applesauce.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

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