A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

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

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

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.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

I’m highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don’t feel in tune with British politics.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

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

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

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

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

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.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

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.

The label ‚liberal‘ or ‚conservative,‘ any – every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from ‚Iolanthe.‘ It goes, ‚Every gal and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.‘ What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

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.

Men and women may form associations for and among themselves and be governed by stipulations that are mutually acceptable.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

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

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

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

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.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

I’m not a big politics guy.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama’s entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.

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

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn’t. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

I’ve taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.

‚Thank you‘ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.