A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

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

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

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

The FBI should not be a political body.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

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

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

The idea that putting Americans ‚first‘ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

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.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

People forget… that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that’s what happened.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

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

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

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

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.

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 here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

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

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

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

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.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

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.

I don’t think President Trump is a racist.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

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

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

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

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

How can a president not be an actor?

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

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.

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.