The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

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

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

The fundamental question I believe is, ‚Is political Islam in our best interest?‘ If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

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.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

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

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

I am not a crook.

Politics have no relation to morals.

We believe that according the name ‚investors‘ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‚romantic.‘

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

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

My proposal happens to be very mainstream.

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

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.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

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.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on. That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‚election.‘

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.

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

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

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

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

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.

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

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?

Politicians love regulating. That’s part of the whole power structure.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.