Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos.

We have the best government that money can buy.

I don’t write policy for my government.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Everything isn’t political.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

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

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

I am not a crook.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

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

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

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

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

I love being in the United States Senate.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

I don’t follow politics much.

As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.

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

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

I think Hillary Clinton is a phenomenal woman, and I’ve gotten to know her, and I think she’s made some pretty major contributions over the course of her life.

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It’s because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand – demand – demand change.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

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

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

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.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

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.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

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.

Empire and liberty.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

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.