I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

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

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

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.

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

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.

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

I’m not a big politics guy.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.

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

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

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

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.

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.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

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

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

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

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

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

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

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

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

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

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Political courage is not political suicide.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

How can a president not be an actor?

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

The Democratic position seems to be everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free kittens, I don’t know.

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

I am such a political person.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

There’s only one person in this race who will be there, who’s always been there for you, and that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.