Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

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

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.

It is our future on the line, and we must at least have a say in it.

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.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

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.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

That government is best which governs least.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

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

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don’t have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

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

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

How can we help President Obama?

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

You don’t need a lot of credentials to be prison guard in a federal prison. And, you know, you give them a set of keys and a weapon, and they’re in power.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

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

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

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.

Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.