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.

There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on. That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‚election.‘

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

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.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

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

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.

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.

Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.

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

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

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.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

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

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

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

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

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

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

There’s nothing like white trash at the White House.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

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.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

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.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.

I do not see myself as a celebrity or an icon or things like that… I have not really done anything.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

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

There is no gambling like politics.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

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

The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I’m still skiing. So, we’ll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.