I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

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.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

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.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

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.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

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

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

I will not run for president. No, nope, not going to do it.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

I’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

There’s only one person in this race who will be there, who’s always been there for you, and that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

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.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

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

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.

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

I love being in the United States Senate.

I am not a crook.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

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.

I believe that the primary role of the government is to protect people and not run their lives. You used to be able to believe that in the Democratic Party.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn’t re-elected.

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

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

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

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

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

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.

I don’t think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

I am such a political person.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.