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

Justice is truth in action.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

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

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

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

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

When you’re faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don’t hold back.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

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

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

I’ve got nothing to hide.

I don’t think I would run for president.

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

We are all the President’s men.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

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 don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

My fans don’t feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I’m going through now, they’ll hear about it on a record someday. They’ll hear the real story. There’s a little bit of lag time. It’s not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it’s much more accurate.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don’t get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

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 difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

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

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

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