War is the continuation of politics by other means.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

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

The army teaches boys to think like men.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.

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

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

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.

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

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

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.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

Some of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

It was the Congress that imposed ‚Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,‘ it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

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

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy’s deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or ’79.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel’s neighbours.

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.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

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

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

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?

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you’re the mayor. The bad news is, now you’re the mayor.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

The United States is a violent military state. It’s been involved in military action all over the place.

That government is best which governs least.