Force always attracts men of low morality.

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Politicians and diapers should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

As I would not be a slave so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Reader suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

When I hear a man preach I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Facts are stubborn but statistics are more pliable.

We get what we deserve. They are our elected officials.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth I shall at least have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

You can fool some people sometimes, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.

I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

In matters of conscience the law of the majority has no place.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

Forget sex, or politics, or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.