A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

There’s nothing like white trash at the White House.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

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

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

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

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don’t get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire – this time under the Shia label.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

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

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

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.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.

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

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

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

In politics nothing is contemptible.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

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

I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

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.

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.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

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

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.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

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

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

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

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.