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!

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‚Gee, isn’t that wonderful?‘

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

I think that America’s recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

A diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran’s nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

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

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

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.

I am not a crook.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

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

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

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

I haven’t been very active in politics.

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It’s a marathon.

Global energy security is a vital part of America’s national security.

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.

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn’t re-elected.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

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.

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

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

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

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

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

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

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

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

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

Latinos are Republican. They just don’t know it yet.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

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.

I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.

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

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

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

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.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.