We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

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.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

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.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

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.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

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

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

Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right?

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

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

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

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.

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won’t tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, ‚Well, you know: It’s secret.‘

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

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

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.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

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

I don’t know a country in the world that doesn’t have borders and doesn’t want to know who is coming into their country.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

There’s some jerks. There’s some big egos. There are a few that think they’re one of the Founding Fathers… in both parties.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

How can we help President Obama?

We don’t want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.

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

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

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.

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.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

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.

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