There might be some serious fun in politics.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

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

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.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

I am such a political person.

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

Latinos are Republican. They just don’t know it yet.

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

Politics is 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.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

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

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

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

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.

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?

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 government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

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.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

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

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

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.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

We have the best government that money can buy.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

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

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

There’s only one person in this race who will be there, who’s always been there for you, and that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?