Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

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

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Don't fight forces, use them.

Information is the currency of democracy.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

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

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

Let my enemies devour each other.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

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