No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

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

I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

There’s nothing like white trash at the White House.

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.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Every President wants to do right.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

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.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

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.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

I don’t even know what the issues are. I haven’t paid attention to politics in a long time. It’s actually not something that I really even enjoy. It’s way off my radar.

War settles nothing.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

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

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven’t heard of anyone who’s got better from Alzheimer’s.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

How young can you die of old age?

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.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

Maybe I don’t have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

I don’t think I would run for president.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.