I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

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

I am a just man.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

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

I have a reputation for taking on governors a lot more powerful than me.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

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

People do not make wars; governments do.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

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

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

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.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

You can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

I think Hillary Clinton is a phenomenal woman, and I’ve gotten to know her, and I think she’s made some pretty major contributions over the course of her life.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

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

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.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

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.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Justice is truth in action.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

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

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

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

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

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.

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.

There’s no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, ‚The government’s corrupt,‘ and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

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.