Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

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.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

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

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

I am not a crook.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‚array‘ as far as political purposes were concerned.

When you are president, being able to clearly articulate detailed plans to help the people of this country is a good thing. Knowing what you’re doing is a good thing. And let me tell you, Hillary Clinton absolutely knows what she’s doing.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

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

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama’s entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.

I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

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.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

I will not run for president. No, nope, not going to do it.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

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.

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

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

I haven’t been very active in politics.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

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

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.

It’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

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.

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

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

I think America has always been polarized.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

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

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.