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

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.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don’t agree with, like bombing.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

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.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

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

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

There are some members of the House leadership whose only mission in life is to demonize the president.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn’t been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A’s without taking a book home. I didn’t go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there. The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are against government.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable – even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.

Politics is applesauce.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

Senator McCain is Israel’s most unconditional ally in Mossad’s machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn’t read ‚Democracy in America‘ by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn’t producing any more.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

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.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

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.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

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

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty… it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

I’m not a big politics guy.