The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire – this time under the Shia label.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

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.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

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

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.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

There’s some jerks. There’s some big egos. There are a few that think they’re one of the Founding Fathers… in both parties.

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

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.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Everything isn’t political.

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

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

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.

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

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?

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.