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

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

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.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

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.

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

A politician needs 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.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

How can a president not be an actor?

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

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

I know Gov. Christie. We’ve met a couple of times.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove – disapprove of their point of view.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

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

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

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

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.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

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.

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.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

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.

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

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.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

Trump has no sense of shame.

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

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

I think governments can’t do much.

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

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

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.

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

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

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?

Finality is not the language of politics.

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

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.