If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

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

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

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.

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.

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

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

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

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

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

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

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

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.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Music is always a commentary on society.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

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.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.