Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Politics is applesauce.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you’ve got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I’m not sure any country, either the United States or I don’t hear of anyone else, who’s willing to take on that responsibility.

The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

That government is best which governs least.

Many shoulder heavy burdens of righteous responsibility which, on occasion, seem so difficult to bear. I have heard those challenges termed impossible.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

I don’t think I would run for president.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

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

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.

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?

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

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

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it’s a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it’s not! You don’t really take responsibility for your work.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.