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!

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

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.

I think whenever something is – whenever there’s something that affects the public good, then there does need to be some form of public oversight.

There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire – this time under the Shia label.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

As you pray for the Holy Spirit to make you aware of thoughts that come into your mind that don’t line up with God’s Word, you’ll begin to realize when those thoughts come and you can renew your mind with the Word.

I am such a political person.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

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

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.

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

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

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

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

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

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.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

We can approach God’s throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

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.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

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

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.

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

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

How can we help President Obama?

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

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.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

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.

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.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

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

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.