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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President — I’m beginning to believe it.

A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Democracy’s the worst form of government except for all the others.

No, I’m not a part of any organized political party, I’m a democrat. (hee hee)

For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.

People come to Washington believing it is the center of power. I know I did. It was only much later that I learned that Washington is a steering wheel that's not connected to an engine

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

And my favorite (and particularly apt today):

A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.