A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won’t.
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.
I think it’s a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
I discourage a cult of personality.
People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don’t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they’re dead.
The public seldom forgive twice.
After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, ‘We want our country back!’ Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night.
Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
