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.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.

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.

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

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.

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.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

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

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.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

I don’t think President Trump is a racist.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Finality is not the language of politics.

I think governments can’t do much.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

Reparations – not just aid – should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and – together with other criminal states – for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

Trump has no sense of shame.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

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

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

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.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn’t think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

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

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

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

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

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

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

The label ‚liberal‘ or ‚conservative,‘ any – every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from ‚Iolanthe.‘ It goes, ‚Every gal and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.‘ What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.

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

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

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

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.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.