If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

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 played by the rules of politics as I found them.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

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.

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

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

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.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re going to have to take what they get.

My father… removed from Kentucky to… Indiana, in my eighth year… It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up… Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher… but that was all.

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

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy – well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I’m President, I never will.

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don’t get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

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.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

In our age there is no such thing as ‚keeping out of politics.‘ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Latinos are Republican. They just don’t know it yet.

When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee – working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.

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

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

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

We are all the President’s men.

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

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

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.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

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