When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.