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

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – meaning primarily the United States – come down to two fundamental issues: ‚What are the accepted and applicable ‚rules of world order,‘ and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?‘

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

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

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

I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

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

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

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.

There’s some jerks. There’s some big egos. There are a few that think they’re one of the Founding Fathers… in both parties.

There are some members of the House leadership whose only mission in life is to demonize the president.

It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

I am confident my Hindutva face will be an asset when dealing with foreign affairs with other nations.

The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions has a certain kinship to the view that the U.S. Constitution is a document essentially frozen in time as of the date of its ratification.

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.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

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

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.

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.

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

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

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

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I’m telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

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

Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.

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.

I think politicians really go with the tide.

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.

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

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.

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

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

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

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

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

The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.