Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

I am such a political person.

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

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

I don’t think I would run for president.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

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

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or 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?

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.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

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

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

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

Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a ‚crank.‘

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy’s deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or ’79.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

People do not make wars; governments do.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

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.

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.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

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

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

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

I’m not a politician. And I don’t want to be.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

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.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.

How can we help President Obama?

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

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

If segregationists had their way, I would not be a member of the United States Senate today, I would not be a top contender to be president of the United States.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on. That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‚election.‘

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.