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.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

Lord, help my poor soul.

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

In our age there is no such thing as ‚keeping out of politics.‘ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

I haven’t been very active in politics.

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.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

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.

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

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.

The FBI should not be a political body.

In the last several years, I have been troubled by the right shift of the Republican party too far to the right.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

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.

It’s time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

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

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.

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

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won’t tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, ‚Well, you know: It’s secret.‘

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.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‚O God, forgive me,‘ or ‚Help me.‘

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

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.

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.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

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

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