I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

I don’t think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

There’s some jerks. There’s some big egos. There are a few that think they’re one of the Founding Fathers… in both parties.

With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

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

I’m opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire – this time under the Shia label.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country’s energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

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.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

Senator McCain is Israel’s most unconditional ally in Mossad’s machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.

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

The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

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

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

The Cold War isn’t thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn’t sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

The FBI should not be a political body.

I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

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

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

The fundamental question I believe is, ‚Is political Islam in our best interest?‘ If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

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 have just got a new theory of eternity.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

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

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.