I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

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

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Philosophy is the highest music.

The mere thought hadn’t even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

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.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

Political courage is not political suicide.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

The last person I have ever criticized is an official. They have a tough job to do. Things are happening so quick.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

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

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

As I’m traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we’ve harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don’t know what I feel; I just don’t know what the emotion is.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

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

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.