I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Every country has the government it deserves.

Written laws are like spiderwebs: they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

The vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.

Every communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

He may be a patriot for Austria, but the question is whether he is a patriot for me.

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honor or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.

A real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.