We have the best government that money can buy.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

I don’t like begging money from producers.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

I’m going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we’ve had in a couple of hundred years.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that’s just not what the founders intended.

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

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

When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee – working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.

I’m always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

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

The sinews of war are infinite money.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

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

The government has completed the entire process to do away with interviews for lower rank jobs. There will be no requirement of interview for Group D,C and B non-gazetted posts in central government.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

Political courage is not political suicide.

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

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

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

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.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

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

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

We can’t equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

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

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

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

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

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.

The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

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.