We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.

That government is best which governs least.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

I pay attention to politics and technology.

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

Because we’re Jewish, my father immigrated to Holland in 1933, where he became the managing director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which manufactures products used in making jam.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

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.

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.

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.

There’s no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

The fundamental question I believe is, ‚Is political Islam in our best interest?‘ If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.

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

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

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.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

I love being in the United States Senate.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

I think governments can’t do much.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

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.

I think America has always been polarized.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

Senator McCain is Israel’s most unconditional ally in Mossad’s machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

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.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

We are all the President’s men.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.