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?

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

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‘.

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

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.

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

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

There’s nothing like white trash at the White House.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term ‚reform‘ is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Empire and liberty.

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

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

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

Trump has no sense of shame.

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

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.

You may agree or not with Gaddafi’s political ideas, but no one has the right to question the existence of Libya as an independent state and member of the United Nations.

Democracy passes into despotism.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

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.

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.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

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

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‚race‘ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.