I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‚array‘ as far as political purposes were concerned.

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

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.

I don’t write policy for my government.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

It was the Congress that imposed ‚Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,‘ it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

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.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

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

Politics have no relation to morals.

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

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

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

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

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

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.

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.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

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

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

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.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

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

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

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.

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

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.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

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

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

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.

If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

I don’t think I would run for president.

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.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‚Gee, isn’t that wonderful?‘

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

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

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

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 Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

It sure is hell to be president.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.