A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.

I love being in the United States Senate.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

That government is best which governs least.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

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.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I’m pretty strong on, on defense matters.

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

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

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

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.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

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 income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

I haven’t been very active in politics.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

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

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

I think America has always been polarized.