It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

I fight on. I fight to win.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

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

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

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

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

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

The lady's not for turning.

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