It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
Man is by nature a political animal.
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Politics is applesauce.
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
There is no gambling like politics.
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman’s truncheon over the anarchist’s bomb.
The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does.
Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
If you don’t like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don’t like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don’t like me – 90 cents.
