Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.

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

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

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.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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

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!

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee – working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

And frankly, I don’t understand – I mean, I’m obviously a card-carrying Democrat – but I can’t understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

We are all the President’s men.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

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.

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

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

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.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

People do not make wars; governments do.

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.

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.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

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.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

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

I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

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.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

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

The Democratic position seems to be everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free kittens, I don’t know.

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.