Half a truth is better than no politics.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

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

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Politicians love regulating. That’s part of the whole power structure.

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

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

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.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

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.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

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

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 lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

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

We have the best government that money can buy.

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.

Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn’t producing any more.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

A lie cannot live.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

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

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

Live truth instead of professing it.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

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.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.