Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

I think America has always been polarized.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

There’s nothing like white trash at the White House.

The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It’s hard to see how it pulls in fans.

It sure is hell to be president.

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

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

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

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

I’ve rarely kept my distance from kind of – I don’t know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, ‚Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.‘

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

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

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

I supported Donald Trump.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

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.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

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

The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

Trump has no sense of shame.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

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

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

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

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

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.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

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 always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

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

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.