Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.

The first thing the communists do when they take over a country is to outlaw cockfighting

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

And if I am elected, I promise the formation of a new party, a third party, a wild party.

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

We ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within.

I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole.

It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.

Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.

We can't make any statements here. We can't talk about the internal politics of Paraguay.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions.

Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling.

Money's the solution, curing all the ails of the nation. But what about the hearts of man?

The cavalries charged and the Indians died, oh the country was young with God on its side.

Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

Jeb Bush is my friend. I think he'd make a great president. I've nudged him for some time.

What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!

To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.

The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman.

Greatest gift is human life and that we have a duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

If you do not know how to lie, cheat, and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

The best way to put more money in people's wallets is to leave it there in the first place.

Environmentalism has already killed somewhere between 10-30 million people since the 1970s.

I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.

All that we got here is American made. It's a little bit cheesy, but it's nicely displayed.

It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.

Being a conservative on campus is like bing a goat amongst the taliban. You are never safe.

You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

Ignore their heathen prayers and help us blow those little bastards straight to Hell. Amen.

This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

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