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.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

The 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.

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

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.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

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

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

Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos.

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country’s energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

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

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

There are some members of the House leadership whose only mission in life is to demonize the president.

Political courage is not political suicide.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn’t re-elected.

The FBI should not be a political body.

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?

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

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

I pay attention to politics and technology.