The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.
John McCain

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
Herbert Hoover

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
Herbert Hoover

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
Barry Goldwater

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
Edmund Burke

I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
Nancy Reagan

I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.
Nancy Reagan

I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.
Nancy Reagan

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.
Dan Quayle

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
Benjamin Disraeli

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
Benjamin Disraeli

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
Benjamin Disraeli

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
Benjamin Disraeli

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
Deng Xiaoping

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
Horace Mann

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
Lewis Mumford

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
Will Durant

At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.
Gerry Adams

Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.
Gerry Adams

The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.
Gerry Adams