Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

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.

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

I am not a crook.

It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘

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

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

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

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

I’m glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

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.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

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

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

I don’t like politicians, and I don’t like politics. I definitely don’t want to be associated with any of them.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

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

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

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

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

Fashion is merely an opinion. And I’ve got a lot of opinions.

I just don’t like mutual funds. I think they’re a rip-off.

With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

I see the world in black and white, and I don’t like compromising.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.