What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

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.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

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

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

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

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

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

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

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

The label ‚liberal‘ or ‚conservative,‘ any – every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from ‚Iolanthe.‘ It goes, ‚Every gal and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.‘ What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy’s deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or ’79.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‚array‘ as far as political purposes were concerned.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

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.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

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.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

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

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

I think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?

Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.

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.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

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.