I don’t think there is a single social issue I haven’t spoken on.
Billy GrahamHow 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?
Alice WalkerWhen you are president, being able to clearly articulate detailed plans to help the people of this country is a good thing. Knowing what you’re doing is a good thing. And let me tell you, Hillary Clinton absolutely knows what she’s doing.
Michelle ObamaEvery President wants to do right.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI have decided in 2020 to run for president.
Kanye WestTrue terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt VonnegutIf the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
Ronald ReaganWhile democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
Madeleine AlbrightBy 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.
Noam ChomskyA President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
Harry S. TrumanI don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.
Noam ChomskyI think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.
Maya AngelouI still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.
Adam SandlerI’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.
Jane GoodallThe political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
Carl von ClausewitzThe example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.
Jim MattisPutin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.
Jim MattisRude 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.
Hunter S. ThompsonWhen Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.
Noam ChomskyIn my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
Harry S. TrumanI had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.
Jimmy CarterPolitics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund BurkeWell, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.
John KennedyI reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
Richard M. NixonPolitically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
Alice WalkerOne lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
Lyndon B. JohnsonSpeakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Dale CarnegieBy 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?
Abraham LincolnIt is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
Joan of ArcThere’s only one person in this race who will be there, who’s always been there for you, and that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story.
Joe BidenDiplomacy: the art of restraining power.
Henry KissingerI cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.
Barack ObamaFortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.
Michelle ObamaI almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
Fidel CastroThe most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
Theodore RooseveltIn this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
H. L. MenckenHanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.
BonoThere’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Will RogersDomestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
John F. KennedyI think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American.
Jimmy CarterIt’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.
Christopher HitchensDemocracy passes into despotism.
PlatoThe 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
Will RogersAnywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.
Noam ChomskyPolitics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.
David HareThe Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
Golda MeirRunning for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It’s a marathon.
Kamala HarrisThe best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
VoltaireWhat we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.
Billy GrahamThe 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.
Henry KissingerRepublicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.
Dan QuayleGovernments are supposed to lie to their citizens.
Noam ChomskyI think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.
Billy GrahamPolitics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Winston ChurchillThere is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception.
Henry KissingerThe most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
Aldous HuxleyThere is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
Barack ObamaIn a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.
John F. KennedyThe effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.
Noam Chomsky