It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Running 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.

I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

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

I love being in the United States Senate.

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

It sure is hell to be president.

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

‚Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.‘ Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

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.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

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

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

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

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

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.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it’s a start.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I’m a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

It was the Congress that imposed ‚Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,‘ it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.