I’m not a conservative of any kind.

The 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.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

There is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

There is no gambling like politics.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

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

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

My mother always used to say, ‚Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God‘ – that’s what she always said. The same God with different names.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

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.

The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

The label ‚liberal‘ or ‚conservative,‘ any – every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from ‚Iolanthe.‘ It goes, ‚Every gal and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.‘ What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

I’ve come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.

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

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

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

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

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

Politically, 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.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

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

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

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

The FBI should not be a political body.

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

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

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

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

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.

I don’t think President Trump is a racist.