An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

We should pass the U.N.’s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don’t. We need to delink terrorism from religion – to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and 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’m glad I can’t vote.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

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.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

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

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

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

The doctrine that everything is fine as long as the population is quiet, that applies in the Middle East, applies in Central America, it applies in 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.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

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

I don’t like politicians, and I don’t like politics. I definitely don’t want to be associated with any of them.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

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.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

I don’t even know what the issues are. I haven’t paid attention to politics in a long time. It’s actually not something that I really even enjoy. It’s way off my radar.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

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.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

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.

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?

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

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

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.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

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.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

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.

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

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

I think Hillary Clinton is a phenomenal woman, and I’ve gotten to know her, and I think she’s made some pretty major contributions over the course of her life.

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

I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

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

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.