Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

We must use time creatively.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

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.

How can we help President Obama?

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

I don’t write policy for my government.

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 stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

I’m highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don’t feel in tune with British politics.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

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

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

Did you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

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.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

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

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

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

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don’t have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

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

Women can’t do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

When I write, when I’m going hot, I don’t want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you’re pushing it.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

Politics have no relation to morals.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

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

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