The fundamental question I believe is, ‚Is political Islam in our best interest?‘ If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

Politics have no relation to morals.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.

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

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

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

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

In politics nothing is contemptible.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

How can we help President Obama?

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

I don’t write policy for my government.

I don’t think I would run for president.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term ‚reform‘ is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

There is no gambling like politics.

People do not make wars; governments do.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

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.

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.

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

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

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

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

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.

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

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

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

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

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.‘

I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

Dollywood is a family park, and all families are welcome. We do have a policy about profanity or controversial messages on clothing or signs. It is to protect the individual wearing or carrying them, as well as to keep down fights or problems by those opposed to it at the park.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.