‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

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.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

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

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

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

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.

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.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

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.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

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.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

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

Russia isn’t going to start a war. They can’t afford it. I think Mr. Putin can be dealt with if we stop screaming at him. You can work with the guy. You just have to know who he is.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States – and war is what they got.

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

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

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

There are some members of the House leadership whose only mission in life is to demonize the president.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it’s because I’m Smart… But that is a lie: The real reason is because I’m an incurable Gambling addict.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

I don’t even know what the issues are. I haven’t paid attention to politics in a long time. It’s actually not something that I really even enjoy. It’s way off my radar.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.