Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

For way too long the politicians and people in power have got away with not doing anything at all to fight the climate crisis and ecological crisis.

In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing their programs, putting them forth, insisting that their representatives implement those programs.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be ‚Citizens United.‘ I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

Now from a distance, I look back on what the Corps taught me: to think like men of action, and to act like men of thought!

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

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

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

In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

In our age there is no such thing as ‚keeping out of politics.‘ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

I don’t think there is a single social issue I haven’t spoken on.

The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American.

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

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

We can’t equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

That government is best which governs least.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Some day I shall be President.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

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

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.