Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It’s a marathon.

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

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

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.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

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

Senator McCain is Israel’s most unconditional ally in Mossad’s machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

I don’t think I would run for president.

How can we help President Obama?

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

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

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

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.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

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.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

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.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

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

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

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.

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.

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.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

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.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

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

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

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

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

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.

I don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

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

Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it’s because I’m Smart… But that is a lie: The real reason is because I’m an incurable Gambling addict.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

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