I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

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

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Every President wants to do right.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

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.

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.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

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.

I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

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

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

I think America has always been polarized.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

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

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

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

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

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

Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don’t agree with, like bombing.

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.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

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

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.