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.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

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

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.

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.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

There’s no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

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

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

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.

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re going to have to take what they get.

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

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

I think politicians really go with the tide.

Latinos are Republican. They just don’t know it yet.

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.

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

Political courage is not political suicide.

I think governments can’t do much.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

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

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

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.

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

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you’re the mayor. The bad news is, now you’re the mayor.

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

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.

Democracy passes into despotism.

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 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.