It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

In 2008, I spoke out against calling the president a Muslim as if that was a curse. And then in 2012, once again, I was very disturbed about some of the intolerance I was seeing in the party, so I made a statement saying there’s a level of intolerance in some parts of the Republican Party. And there was, and I think there still is.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

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

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.

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.

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

NATO’s essentially run by the United States.

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

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

There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they’re not implemented fully, because the U.S. won’t allow it.

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 am not a crook.

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

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

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

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.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

Those 62 million girls who are not being educated around the world impact my life in Washington, D.C., in the United States of America. Because if we aren’t empowering and providing the skills and the resources to half of our population, then we’re not realizing our full potential as a society, as mankind.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions has a certain kinship to the view that the U.S. Constitution is a document essentially frozen in time as of the date of its ratification.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

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.

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

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

The FBI should not be a political body.

The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn’t work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I’m telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

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

There is no gambling like politics.

I’m going to try to unite all Americans.

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

The idea that putting Americans ‚first‘ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.

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.

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

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

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

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

From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

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

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

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.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

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

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.