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 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 have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove – disapprove of their point of view.

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

In the simplest terms, inflation occurs when there’s too much money in the system. On the flip side, deflation occurs when there are too few dollars in circulation.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

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

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn’t stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

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

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

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

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

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

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

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

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

There is no gambling like politics.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

The FBI should not be a political body.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

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.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

I think politicians really go with the tide.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

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.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

I think Hillary Clinton is a phenomenal woman, and I’ve gotten to know her, and I think she’s made some pretty major contributions over the course of her life.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it’s possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.