Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

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.

You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

‚Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.‘ Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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

I supported Donald Trump.

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy – well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I’m President, I never will.

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‚the rich‘ to pay ‚their fair share‘ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

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’m not an analyzer. I’ve got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don’t analyze people.

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.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

I’m not a politician. And I don’t want to be.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.