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?

Pakistan is not a unified country.

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.

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

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life’s savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

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

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

Trump has no sense of shame.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable – even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it’s a start.

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

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.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

We have the best government that money can buy.

To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

People were asleep, but I think they’re waking up now. Trump has given everybody a good kick, and people are waking up and realizing they’ve got to get involved.

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

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

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

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you’ve got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I’m not sure any country, either the United States or I don’t hear of anyone else, who’s willing to take on that responsibility.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

The honor of a nation is its life.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

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

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

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

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

Politics have no relation to morals.

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

Politics is applesauce.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

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

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire – this time under the Shia label.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.