The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.

If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

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 world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

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.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

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

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

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama’s entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

America is just downright mean.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

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

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

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

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won’t allow it.

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.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

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

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

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‚We, the people.‘

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.

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

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

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

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I’ve been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it’s ending ‚don’t ask, don’t tell,‘ making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.