Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

When one side benefits more than the other, that’s a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

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

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

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.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove – disapprove of their point of view.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

I have a reputation for taking on governors a lot more powerful than me.

Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.

During a few days‘ halt near Vesontio for the provision of corn and other supplies, a panic arose from inquiries made by our troops and remarks uttered by Gauls and traders, who affirmed that the Germans were men of a mighty frame and an incredible valour and skill at arms.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

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

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

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

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

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.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.