Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

A President cannot always be popular.

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

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

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

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

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

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

The world is too violent right now.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

I don’t even know what the issues are. I haven’t paid attention to politics in a long time. It’s actually not something that I really even enjoy. It’s way off my radar.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I’m telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

I’ve had just about everything punched. I’ve had things grabbed that just shouldn’t be grapped.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

You cross me, I’m going to hurt you. But I’m really very gentle.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‚array‘ as far as political purposes were concerned.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

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

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

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.

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama’s entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

America is just downright mean.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

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

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

I sometimes just don’t like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

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

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.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

The press is the enemy.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

I think Hillary Clinton is a phenomenal woman, and I’ve gotten to know her, and I think she’s made some pretty major contributions over the course of her life.

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

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you’re the mayor. The bad news is, now you’re the mayor.

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

Israel is a pretty crazy state.