Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Empire and liberty.

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama’s entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

Latinos are Republican. They just don’t know it yet.

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?

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

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.

We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval.

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

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.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

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

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

Selling out is doing something you don’t really want to do for money. That’s what selling out is.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

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?

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Losing is tough.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

I don’t like begging money from producers.

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

I don’t write policy for my government.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

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

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

I know Gov. Christie. We’ve met a couple of times.

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

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.