A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

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.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

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

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

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.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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

I don’t think I would run for president.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

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.

Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

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

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

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 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.

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.

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.

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, of course, outspent McCain.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

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

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

There’s only one person in this race who will be there, who’s always been there for you, and that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

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

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

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.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‚the rich‘ to pay ‚their fair share‘ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

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

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

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.

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

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.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.

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.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

When you are nominated for the best player in Europe, the Ballon d’Or, playing in the Champions League, there is so much pressure. You don’t know what will happen. This pressure is inside you – you always have it.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

The fundamental question I believe is, ‚Is political Islam in our best interest?‘ If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.