Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

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.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

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.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

I am not a crook.

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

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

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?

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

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

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Senator McCain is Israel’s most unconditional ally in Mossad’s machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

That government is best which governs least.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

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.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.