Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

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.

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

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.

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.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

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

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

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.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

I don’t follow politics much.

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

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

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

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

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

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

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.

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

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president’s.

I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

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

I am not a crook.

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

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.

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

The Democratic position seems to be everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free kittens, I don’t know.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States – and war is what they got.

I think ‚Dirty Harry‘ was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

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.

I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

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

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

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