Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

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

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.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

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

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

There were several possible solutions of the difficulty of classical electrodynamics, any one of which might serve as a good starting point to the solution of the difficulties of quantum electrodynamics.

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.

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

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I’m a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

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!

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

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.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

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.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

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

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

I don’t write policy for my government.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won’t allow it.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

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.

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

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.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

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

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.