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

I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‚array‘ as far as political purposes were concerned.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

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

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

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.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

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

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It’s because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand – demand – demand change.

If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.

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.

I’ve never been a feminist.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

I love being in the United States Senate.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

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.

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

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.

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

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

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

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.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

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.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

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

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.

Our goal in the ’70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

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

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.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

I think governments can’t do much.

If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.