As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

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.

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.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It’s a marathon.

I am such a political person.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

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.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I’m a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

I’m just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

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.

America is just downright mean.

Wherever I go meeting the public… spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

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.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

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

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

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

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

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.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

The label ‚liberal‘ or ‚conservative,‘ any – every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from ‚Iolanthe.‘ It goes, ‚Every gal and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.‘ What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

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

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

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

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

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.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘

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

I can’t go out with a Republican.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

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

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

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

There’s no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.

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

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

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.