Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

People do not make wars; governments do.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

Everything isn’t political.

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

I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

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

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‚array‘ as far as political purposes were concerned.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

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

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

I have no doubt that Russia will and should remain a major source of energy supplies for Europe and the world.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

I have a reputation for taking on governors a lot more powerful than me.

I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

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.‘

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

Politicians love regulating. That’s part of the whole power structure.

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.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‚Gee, isn’t that wonderful?‘

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

The idea that putting Americans ‚first‘ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

Iran is not an enemy of ISIS; they have a lot to gain from the turmoil that ISIS creates.

The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: ‚What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?‘