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

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

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

Read my lips: no new taxes.

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.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

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 truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

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.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

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

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

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

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

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.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

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

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

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

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

The idea that putting Americans ‚first‘ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.

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

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

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

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

You can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

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

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

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

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

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

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.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don’t agree with, like bombing.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.