Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

I don’t follow politics much.

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

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

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

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we’ve had.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

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

If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.

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

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

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.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

I like working-class people, generally speaking.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

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

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

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

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

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.

There isn’t a single player I would pay to watch. You can say Thierry Henry, he’s a fabulous striker, with pace and power, but a great entertainer needs to have charisma, too. Does he have charisma? No.