Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

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.

I love being in the United States Senate.

Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

Painting, I think it’s like jazz.

‚Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.‘ Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy – well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I’m President, I never will.

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

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

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

I’m personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I’m not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

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 have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

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.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

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

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

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.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

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.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

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.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven’t been in a high school for about a year. So um, it’s kinda interesting coming back, and y’know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

In our age there is no such thing as ‚keeping out of politics.‘ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

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

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

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.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.