Politicians love regulating. That’s part of the whole power structure.

I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

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

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

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.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Everything isn’t political.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

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.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

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 government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

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?

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

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.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy’s deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or ’79.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won’t tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, ‚Well, you know: It’s secret.‘

An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re going to have to take what they get.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

I don’t follow politics much.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

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

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

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‚We, the people.‘

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

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.