Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.

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.

Every President wants to do right.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

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.

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.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

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.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

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

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

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.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it’s because I’m Smart… But that is a lie: The real reason is because I’m an incurable Gambling addict.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

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?

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

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.

Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.

A President cannot always be popular.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

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.

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

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

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.

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

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

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

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

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

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

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.

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