Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

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.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

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

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I’m pretty strong on, on defense matters.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

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

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.

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

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.‘

Empire and liberty.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

I will not run for president. No, nope, not going to do it.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

I’m not a big politics guy.

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.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

The label ‚liberal‘ or ‚conservative,‘ any – every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from ‚Iolanthe.‘ It goes, ‚Every gal and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.‘ What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

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

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.

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.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‚the rich‘ to pay ‚their fair share‘ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

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.

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.

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

It sure is hell to be president.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

Just as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

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