I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

My mother always used to say, ‚Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God‘ – that’s what she always said. The same God with different names.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

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.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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 is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

We are all the President’s men.

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

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

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

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.

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

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.

Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

There’s nothing like white trash at the White House.

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I’m pretty strong on, on defense matters.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

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

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn’t anticipate.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people’s participation and E for equality.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

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.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.