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

Read my lips: no new taxes.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

I don’t write policy for my government.

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

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

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

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

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

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

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

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.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

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.

There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

I’m not a politician. And I don’t want to be.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

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.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

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.

You can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country’s energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.