Politics is the womb in which war develops.

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

America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.

Politicians love regulating. That’s part of the whole power structure.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

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

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you’re the mayor. The bad news is, now you’re the mayor.

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

Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China – the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

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

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 think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

How can we help President Obama?

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won’t allow it.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Society is at odds with itself.

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I’m pretty strong on, on defense matters.

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

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

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

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

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.

Every President wants to do right.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

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.