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

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

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 and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I’m pretty strong on, on defense matters.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

People do not make wars; governments do.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

You can’t do something forever.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

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 can’t go out with a Republican.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

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

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.

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.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

It’s nice to be included in people’s fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.

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.‘

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

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

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.

That government is best which governs least.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

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.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Forgotten is forgiven.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

It was the Congress that imposed ‚Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,‘ it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

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.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.