The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

Every President wants to do right.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

We have the best government that money can buy.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

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.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn’t re-elected.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

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

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

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

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

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

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

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

I don’t write policy for my government.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

The idea that putting Americans ‚first‘ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

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.

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’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.