We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.

Everything isn’t political.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable – even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

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

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

I think governments can’t do much.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Presumptuous for me to say, but at least – at a minimum – I’ve been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I’ve been relatively – presumptuous to say – relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

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.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term ‚reform‘ is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.

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.

It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can’t or won’t see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

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

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.