We Conservatives hate unemployment.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

The FBI should not be a political body.

I am such a political person.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.

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

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

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

In the middle of a recession, where we’re just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

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

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

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

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.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Deflation isn’t good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.

This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

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

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

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

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

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

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

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.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

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

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

There’s some jerks. There’s some big egos. There are a few that think they’re one of the Founding Fathers… in both parties.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

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.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

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

You cannot mix sports with politics.

I think Hillary Clinton is a phenomenal woman, and I’ve gotten to know her, and I think she’s made some pretty major contributions over the course of her life.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

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

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.