If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

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.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

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.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

I’m highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don’t feel in tune with British politics.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

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

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

I know Gov. Christie. We’ve met a couple of times.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

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.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

I supported Donald Trump.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

The government has completed the entire process to do away with interviews for lower rank jobs. There will be no requirement of interview for Group D,C and B non-gazetted posts in central government.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

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

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

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

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.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.

In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

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

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

There’s only one person in this race who will be there, who’s always been there for you, and that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, ‚Yes,‘ you know he is a crook.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.