But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

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.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a ‚should‘ involved, and this cannot be worked out from, ‚If I do this, what will happen?‘ alone.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

It was the Congress that imposed ‚Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,‘ it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

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

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

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

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

Politics is applesauce.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

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

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.

The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

Washington isn’t a city, it’s an abstraction.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

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

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.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire – this time under the Shia label.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

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

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

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

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

I have a reputation for taking on governors a lot more powerful than me.

King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France… settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.