A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

I’m very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

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.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

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.

When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee – working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

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

You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

I consider ISIS nothing more than an excuse for Iran to continue its mischief.

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 told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.

Justice Scalia and I served together on the D.C. Circuit. So his votes are not surprising to me. What I like about him is that he’s very funny and very smart.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

War settles nothing.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

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

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

I’m conservative, but I’m not a nut about it.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

I’ve rarely kept my distance from kind of – I don’t know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, ‚Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.‘

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

It sure is hell to be president.

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

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.

There is always safety in valor.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.