Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

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

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

Political courage is not political suicide.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.

I don’t think President Trump is a racist.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

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.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

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

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

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.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

I won’t do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can’t, it’s not gonna make the team.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

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.

If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

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

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

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

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

I don’t vote. I don’t do no voting.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

You’ve got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That’s it; that’s the way we move forward. That’s how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.