Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

I think it’s important to vote.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

I never dreamt, in my dream, I’m Dalai Lama.

It sure is hell to be president.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.

Politics is applesauce.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

There’s nothing like white trash at the White House.

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

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

I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that’s just not what the founders intended.

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

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

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

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

Even more amazing than modern technology is our opportunity to access information directly from Heaven, without hardware, software, or monthly service fees.

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

When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee – working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

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

We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.

A President cannot always be popular.

My wife is already in Heaven.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

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?

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

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.

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.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.

I was one of the wildest Santa Clauses they ever had.