No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

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

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

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.

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.

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

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.

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.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

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.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

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

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.

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

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Politics is applesauce.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

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.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be taken over totally.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.