The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

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.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

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

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

I am such a political person.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

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

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

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.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

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

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

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.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

It was the money from ‚Star Wars‘ and ‚Jaws‘ that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

There is no gambling like politics.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I’m a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

I don’t write policy for my government.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those discoveries on the scientific, philosophic, and artistic work of his contemporaries: but not, by any means, necessarily through Freud’s own writing.

I would be lying if I didn’t admit sadness that our wonderful airline is merging with another. Because I’m not American, the U.S. Department of Transportation stipulated I take some of my shares in Virgin America as non-voting shares, reducing my influence over any takeover. So there was sadly nothing I could do to stop it.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?

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

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

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.

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

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you.

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

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.