It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

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

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

History, a distillation of rumour.

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

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

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

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.

Everything isn’t political.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it’s also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

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?

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

Here’s what I believe, I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the history of the world but i think there was some bad apples over there.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

It was the Congress that imposed ‚Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,‘ it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

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.

The FBI should not be a political body.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

I don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

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

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

There is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

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

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.