And frankly, I don’t understand – I mean, I’m obviously a card-carrying Democrat – but I can’t understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

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.

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

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

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.

There’s only one person in this race who will be there, who’s always been there for you, and that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story.

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

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American.

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.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

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

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.

If people don’t vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it’s not going to change anything if you don’t vote.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

I don’t even know what the issues are. I haven’t paid attention to politics in a long time. It’s actually not something that I really even enjoy. It’s way off my radar.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

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

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

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

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

I don’t write policy for my government.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

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

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

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.

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

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.

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

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

You’re not just voting for an individual, in my judgment, you’re voting for an agenda. You’re voting for a platform. You’re voting for a political philosophy.

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

Politics is applesauce.

I have a reputation for taking on governors a lot more powerful than me.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They’re not men.