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

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

The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

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.

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

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

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

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

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

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

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

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.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

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

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

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

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.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

Even though God loves us, we still have a problem: sin. It’s important for us to learn how to confront sin and overcome it, because while God loves sinners, He hates sin. And He hates it because of what it does to us and how it keeps us from the abundant life Jesus died to give us.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

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

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‚Father, the atheists?‘ Even the atheists. Everyone!

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

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

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that’s available to us as Christians.

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

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

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

I think Hillary Clinton is a phenomenal woman, and I’ve gotten to know her, and I think she’s made some pretty major contributions over the course of her life.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

America is just downright mean.

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.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I’ve been around. He’s fresh, he’s new, he’s insightful.