The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you’re rich.
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.
What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
Voters don’t decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
Reporters thrive on the world’s misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
I always voted at my party’s call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal – that you can gather votes like box tops – is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
The secret of getting things done is to act!
