Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

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

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

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.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

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

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

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.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

I don’t follow politics much.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money… but city and state governments cannot.

Politics have no relation to morals.

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.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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

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.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

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.

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

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.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

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

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.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

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

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.