I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

People were asleep, but I think they’re waking up now. Trump has given everybody a good kick, and people are waking up and realizing they’ve got to get involved.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

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.

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

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

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

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

I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

In the last several years, I have been troubled by the right shift of the Republican party too far to the right.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

I don’t think I would run for president.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

I’m not a big politics guy.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

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

I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect.

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove – disapprove of their point of view.

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.

There’s nothing like white trash at the White House.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

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

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

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

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

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.

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

I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.

I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

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

I’m not a politician. And I don’t want to be.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

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

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind – the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.

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.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

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