A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

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

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

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

I’m very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

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

If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

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

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

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.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

It sure is hell to be president.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I’m not an expert on how you get out of those things.

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn’t surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

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.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

The Middle East is hopeful. There’s hope there.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

I’m a conservative, but I’m not a nut about it.

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

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

We make war that we may live in peace.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

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

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

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

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.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

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