The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

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.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

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

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

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.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‚array‘ as far as political purposes were concerned.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

When you are president, being able to clearly articulate detailed plans to help the people of this country is a good thing. Knowing what you’re doing is a good thing. And let me tell you, Hillary Clinton absolutely knows what she’s doing.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

I don’t even know what the issues are. I haven’t paid attention to politics in a long time. It’s actually not something that I really even enjoy. It’s way off my radar.

In Egypt, on the eve of Tahrir Square, there was a major poll which found that overwhelmingly – 80-90%, numbers like that – Egyptians regarded the main threats they face as the U.S. and Israel. They don’t like Iran – Arabs generally don’t like Iran – but they didn’t consider it a threat.

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.

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you’re the mayor. The bad news is, now you’re the mayor.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

War is the province of danger.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

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.

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

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

Danger is sauce for prayers.

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.

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

How can we help President Obama?

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

A diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran’s nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

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.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

I’ve rarely kept my distance from kind of – I don’t know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, ‚Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.‘

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

There’s only one person in this race who will be there, who’s always been there for you, and that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story.

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

I am such a political person.

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 totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

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

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

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

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.