I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

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

Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

I don’t like politicians, and I don’t like politics. I definitely don’t want to be associated with any of them.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

Latinos are Republican. They just don’t know it yet.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

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

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

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.

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

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.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

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

With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

The Democratic position seems to be everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free kittens, I don’t know.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I’ve been around. He’s fresh, he’s new, he’s insightful.

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!

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama’s entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

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.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.