There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

Finality is not the language of politics.

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.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It’s one of the reasons I dropped out of school.

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

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

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

We can’t allow the world’s worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world’s worst weapons.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

There is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

I like policy. It’s why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government – you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that’s important to me.

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It’s because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand – demand – demand change.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

America is just downright mean.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want I just react. I go against it.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.