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.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

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

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Sin is geographical.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

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.

There is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

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.

America is just downright mean.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

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?

If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

The Public is merely a multiplied ‚me.‘

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

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.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

It’s a funny old world.

There is no such things as ‚best‘ in the world of individuals.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.