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.

You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

I don’t follow politics much.

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

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

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don’t agree with, like bombing.

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.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Politics is applesauce.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

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 think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn’t re-elected.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.

In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‚Gee, isn’t that wonderful?‘

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

There’s no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.

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.

I’m not a politician. And I don’t want to be.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

I don’t think I would run for president.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

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

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.