No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

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

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

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

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

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.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.