Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

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

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

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

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.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

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

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

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.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn’t think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

Gold is hoarded. It’s estimated that 95 percent of all gold ever mined is still around.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

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

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

I’m personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I’m not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

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

You cannot mix sports with politics.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

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

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

At times, I’ve referred to Christ’s miracles, and have said, ‚Well, Christ multiplied the fish and the loaves to feed the people. That is precisely what we want to do with the Revolution and socialism.‘

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

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

Democracy is the road to socialism.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

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.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

I think politicians really go with the tide.