The Democratic position seems to be everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free kittens, I don’t know.

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.

If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re going to have to take what they get.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

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.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

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.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

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

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Politicians love regulating. That’s part of the whole power structure.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle… and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable – those billionaire reports are a joke.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

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.

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.

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 don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

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.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

I don’t follow politics much.

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.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

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

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

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

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

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.

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

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

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

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.

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.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

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

I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

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