There is no gambling like politics.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

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

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.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

I’m highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don’t feel in tune with British politics.

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

The fundamental question I believe is, ‚Is political Islam in our best interest?‘ If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

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.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

We believe that according the name ‚investors‘ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‚romantic.‘

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

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?

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

I think America has always been polarized.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

But if you – if what – the reports are true, what they’re saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs, we knew that.

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.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

Music is like film to me.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama’s entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

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

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

If you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

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.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

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

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.