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

If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

I don’t vote. I don’t do no voting.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

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.

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.

Society is at odds with itself.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

I’m highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don’t feel in tune with British politics.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

I don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

We live in ugly times.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

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

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.

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

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

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

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.