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

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

We are all the President’s men.

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

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

And frankly, I don’t understand – I mean, I’m obviously a card-carrying Democrat – but I can’t understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

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.

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

I am such a political person.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

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?

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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.

Politics have no relation to morals.

This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

The FBI should not be a political body.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

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

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?‘

Every President wants to do right.

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 would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

I haven’t been very active in politics.

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

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

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 stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

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.

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

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

Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

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.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

Democracy passes into despotism.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

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

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.