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

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

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

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

I don’t write policy for my government.

I don’t like politicians, and I don’t like politics. I definitely don’t want to be associated with any of them.

Democracy passes into despotism.

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.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

People were asleep, but I think they’re waking up now. Trump has given everybody a good kick, and people are waking up and realizing they’ve got to get involved.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

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

I’m not a politician. And I don’t want to be.

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you’re the mayor. The bad news is, now you’re the mayor.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

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

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 reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

When you are president, being able to clearly articulate detailed plans to help the people of this country is a good thing. Knowing what you’re doing is a good thing. And let me tell you, Hillary Clinton absolutely knows what she’s doing.

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

Finality is not the language of politics.

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

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

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.

We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.

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

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

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

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.

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

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.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

Trump has no sense of shame.

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

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn’t producing any more.

There’s no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there’s been a melding in their goals when it comes to the separation of church and state. I’ve always believed in the separation of church and state.