The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you’ve got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I’m not sure any country, either the United States or I don’t hear of anyone else, who’s willing to take on that responsibility.

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.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

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

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy’s deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or ’79.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

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.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

Senator McCain is Israel’s most unconditional ally in Mossad’s machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

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

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

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

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It’s a marathon.

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.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Politics is applesauce.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

Politics have no relation to morals.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

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

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 always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I’m telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.