Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

Politicians study hard and work diligently their entire lives to be able to stand in front of a national audience and lie through their teeth.

Politics should be a field that attracts statesmen, not future CEOs and board members.

President Obama smoked so much pot in college he never learned to spell. Which is why he's confusing the word "ruining" the country with "running" the country.

Individuals start to see themselves reflected in their work and to understand their full status as human beings through the object created, through the work accomplished. Work no longer entails...

Diplomacy was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.

Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it

Politics is an endless, borderless war against individual liberty.

Enemies may unite to eliminate a common threat, but never without a wary eye fixed on their ally.

Dare I ask Mao and his Communist Party? I fear my throat will be cut into two pieces. In the name of revolution, for thought crimes, such questions can turn me to ashes.

For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the distance, like the introduction to some epic science-fiction film, then shining brightly...

A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.

The Government's going to pass a bill regarding schools. Well I never. Interfering gang they are, as if a parent doesn't know what's best for her own child. I don't know, I don't know! We won't be...

Fascism is when corporations become the government.

It always amazes me how people in Europe and the United States can be so indifferent to the speeches of their chancellor or president, for these words from the top can be a wind sock for what might...

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst...

Beware of anything to do with President Obama... I speak from experience.

A senator once confided to me that the greatest need in Washington was the elimination of the cocktail party. He said: It consumes so much of our time that we don't have time for matters of state.

There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter.

A mob always picked its own leaders, and it always picked the right ones.

The Democrats would like you to believe that the USA is the 'Greatest nation on Earth'. Is this true? The Republicans answer this question by stating there is a need to 'Make America Great Again'.

The problem of political theory is how to combine that degree of individual initiative which is necessary for progress, with the degree of social cohesion which is necessary for survival.

Do you know what politics is? It is the French word for a lie. Oh! Politics! When you hear the French say: our politics, you know they mean: our lies. And when you hear the Muslims, the Friends of...

The right way is to give one's attention first to the highest good of the young, just as you expect a good gardener to give his attention first to the young plants, and after that to the others. -...

Our freedom of mobility has helped keep this nation free. We are eagles, not herds of cattle. Eagles are much harder to corral with fences.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

The Wickans know that the gift of power is never free. They know enough not to envy the chosen among them, for power is never a game, nor are glittering standards raised to glory and wealth. They...