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

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.

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.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

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

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

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.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

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

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

A politician needs 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.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

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

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we’re spending in Pakistan, we’re spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support and illegally using U.S. weapons.

Everything isn’t political.

Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American.

There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they’re not implemented fully, because the U.S. won’t allow it.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

I’m glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

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.

There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire – this time under the Shia label.

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

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

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

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

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

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos.

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel’s neighbours.

Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

I’m personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I’m not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

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

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.