If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

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.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

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.

No one saw the recession coming.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

Foreigners don’t want to invest any more in France – and this is not working.

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.

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

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term ‚reform‘ is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it’s because I’m Smart… But that is a lie: The real reason is because I’m an incurable Gambling addict.

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.

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

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.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

I don’t write policy for my government.

It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

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.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

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.