About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

It sure is hell to be president.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

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.

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

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

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

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

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

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

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

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart’s blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

There’s no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, ‚The government’s corrupt,‘ and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

When I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as if dozens of separate governments are running at the same time in one main government. It appeared that everyone has its own fiefdom.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

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

Lord, help my poor soul.

The government has completed the entire process to do away with interviews for lower rank jobs. There will be no requirement of interview for Group D,C and B non-gazetted posts in central government.

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.

Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

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

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

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

My Democratic friends just can’t accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president – it’s called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a ‚Hurt Feelings Report‘ and let’s move on.

A President cannot always be popular.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.