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.

My Democratic friends just can’t accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president – it’s called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a ‚Hurt Feelings Report‘ and let’s move on.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

Democracy passes into despotism.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

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.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos.

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

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn’t producing any more.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

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.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

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.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.

How can a president not be an actor?

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

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.

Ethics and power are separate.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

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

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

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

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.