A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

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.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

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

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don’t agree with, like bombing.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

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

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

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

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

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.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

There is no gambling like politics.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

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

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

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

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.

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

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.

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

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

It was the Congress that imposed ‚Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,‘ it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that’s just not what the founders intended.

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

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

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 and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.