I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. – Margaret Thatcher
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. – Winston Churchill
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. – Winston Churchill
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. – H. L. Mencken
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. – Thomas Sowell
Politics have no relation to morals. – Niccolo Machiavelli
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. – Alexander Hamilton
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. – Ronald Reagan
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. – Dante Alighieri
A healthy democracy requires a decent society it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful. – Charles W. Pickering
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends… that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. – Adlai E. Stevenson
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. – Harry S. Truman
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. – Ambrose Bierce
Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families. – Mitt Romney
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. – Ambrose Bierce
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. – Henry A. Kissinger
In politics the middle way is none at all. – John Adams
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog. – Harry S. Truman
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. – Erich Fromm
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. – John Stuart Mill
