Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

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.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

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

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

The ‚anti-globalisation movement‘ is the most significant proponent of globalisation – but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think – even the activists – that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: ‚Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn’t stop the war so what’s the use of doing it again?‘

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Empire and liberty.

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

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

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

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

And frankly, I don’t understand – I mean, I’m obviously a card-carrying Democrat – but I can’t understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

I’m not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

I love being in the United States Senate.

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

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!

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

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.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

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

I think politicians really go with the tide.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

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

I vote and I do jury duty.

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

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.