Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

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.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

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.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

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

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

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters – and the church does not speak for me.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

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

Thomas Jefferson once said, ‚We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.‘ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

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

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

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.

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.

My Democratic friends just can’t accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president – it’s called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a ‚Hurt Feelings Report‘ and let’s move on.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

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

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

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

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

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

Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.

For revolutionary Cubans, to cooperate with other poor and exploited peoples has always been a political principle and a duty towards humanity.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

Politics is applesauce.

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.