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.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

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.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

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.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

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.

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

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

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.

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

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

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

Trump has no sense of shame.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn’t matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

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

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

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.

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

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

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.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

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.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.

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