We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

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

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

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

I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

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

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

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.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

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

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

I’m not a politician. And I don’t want to be.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

Everything isn’t political.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

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.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

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 am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

We make war that we may live in peace.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

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

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

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.

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

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

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

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.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.

Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.

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.

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