Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

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.

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

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

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

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

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.

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.

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

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

In war there is no substitute for victory.

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable.

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‚Gee, isn’t that wonderful?‘

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated – Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

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 issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

Everything isn’t political.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

I think governments can’t do much.

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.

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

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

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.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

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

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.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

Latinos are Republican. They just don’t know it yet.

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

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

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.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

Senator McCain is Israel’s most unconditional ally in Mossad’s machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

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?