All impeachments, I guess, are political.

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

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.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.

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

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

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

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

We’re news junkies in my house.

A President cannot always be popular.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

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.

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

I think politicians really go with the tide.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

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

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

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.

Everything isn’t political.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that’s just not what the founders intended.

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

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

There’s no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, ‚The government’s corrupt,‘ and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

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

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

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

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.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

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

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

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.

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.

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new ‚solution‘ to society’s ‚problems.‘

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.