I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

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.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

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

There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on. That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‚election.‘

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

I’ve rarely kept my distance from kind of – I don’t know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, ‚Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.‘

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

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

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

America is just downright mean.

The idea that putting Americans ‚first‘ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.

My Democratic friends just can’t accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president – it’s called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a ‚Hurt Feelings Report‘ and let’s move on.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don’t get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

There is always an easy solution to every problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

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 perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?

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

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

I think America has always been polarized.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

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

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

I think politicians really go with the tide.

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking – it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

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.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

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

I can’t go out with a Republican.

I know that the arts are important. I’m not denying that, but I can’t associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

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.

Solutions are not the answer.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

Everything popular is wrong.

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.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

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

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.

How can a president not be an actor?

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.