What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

I think governments can’t do much.

If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re going to have to take what they get.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire – this time under the Shia label.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

People were asleep, but I think they’re waking up now. Trump has given everybody a good kick, and people are waking up and realizing they’ve got to get involved.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it’s because I’m Smart… But that is a lie: The real reason is because I’m an incurable Gambling addict.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‚array‘ as far as political purposes were concerned.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

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.

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.

I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

Latinos are Republican. They just don’t know it yet.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.