I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

We live in ugly times.

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.

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

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

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

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.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

I like working-class people, generally speaking.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

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

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

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

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

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

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

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.

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

Everything isn’t political.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

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

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

People do not make wars; governments do.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

Girls are soft and pretty.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

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

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn’t producing any more.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women’s organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man’s world.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.