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

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

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.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

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.

Saddam’s goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

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

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

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

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.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

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

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

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

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

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

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

I don’t follow politics much.

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

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

I haven’t been very active in politics.

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

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.

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That’s part of the normal diplomatic relations.

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

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

I don’t think I would run for president.

You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

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

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

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 don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.