Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

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

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I’ve been around. He’s fresh, he’s new, he’s insightful.

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

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

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

Democracy passes into despotism.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

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

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

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

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 believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn’t think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

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

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

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

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

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

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?

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

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.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

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.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

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.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country’s energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

History, a distillation of rumour.

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.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

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

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.

The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Senator McCain is Israel’s most unconditional ally in Mossad’s machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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