Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re going to have to take what they get.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove – disapprove of their point of view.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

I know Gov. Christie. We’ve met a couple of times.

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

All art is quite useless.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

I will not run for president. No, nope, not going to do it.

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.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

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?

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

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

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term ‚reform‘ is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

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

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

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.

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

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

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.

In our age there is no such thing as ‚keeping out of politics.‘ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

I’m not a politician. And I don’t want to be.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

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.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.