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

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

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

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

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

The government has completed the entire process to do away with interviews for lower rank jobs. There will be no requirement of interview for Group D,C and B non-gazetted posts in central government.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

I’m highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don’t feel in tune with British politics.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country’s energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

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

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

Finality is not the language of politics.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

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

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

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.

I haven’t been very active in politics.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

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

I think America has always been polarized.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

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

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

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

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