A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.

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

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

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.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

I’ve never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Justice is truth in action.

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‚Gee, isn’t that wonderful?‘

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.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

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

There’s no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

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.

‚Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.‘ Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

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.

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

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

I think governments can’t do much.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.