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.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action – common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

No one can say, ‚I have dropped out – I am no longer in the system.‘ When you’re in prison, you’re even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don’t transform the system as an absolute thing.

The idea that putting Americans ‚first‘ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

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

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

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

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

Politicians love regulating. That’s part of the whole power structure.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

I’m not a big politics guy.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

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!

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?

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

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

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

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn’t producing any more.

I don’t think I would run for president.