I’m not a conservative of any kind.

That government is best which governs least.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

I’m a conservative, but I’m not a nut about it.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

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

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

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn’t think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

It sure is hell to be president.

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.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

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

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

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

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

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

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

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I’m telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

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.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

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

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that… we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and… preposterous.

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.

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.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

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

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

The fundamental question I believe is, ‚Is political Islam in our best interest?‘ If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.

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.

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.

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

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.‘

Jesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.