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

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‚the rich‘ to pay ‚their fair share‘ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

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

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

There is no gambling like politics.

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

You can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

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.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

I am such a political person.

I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

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

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 is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

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

Politics is applesauce.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

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

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

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.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

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

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

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

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.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

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