There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

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

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

A leader leads by example, not by force

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

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

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.