Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

America is just downright mean.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

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.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

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

Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

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.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

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.

Democracy is a daring concept – a hope that we’ll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty… it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

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

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

It was the Congress that imposed ‚Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,‘ it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

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.

I’m not an analyzer. I’ve got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don’t analyze people.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee – working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

We are all the President’s men.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

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

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

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.

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

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

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

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

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.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

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

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.