In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

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.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

I’ve been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

How can a president not be an actor?

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.

I don’t think I would run for president.

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

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.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‚the rich‘ to pay ‚their fair share‘ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

The ‚peace movement‘ exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

The protestor I think will speak up for the world’s poorest.

Democracy passes into despotism.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

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

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

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

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.

We need every person on Earth to acknowledge that climate change is real and encourage each other and our leaders to address the challenge.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

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.