I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

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.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

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

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

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

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

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

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

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

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

I am not a crook.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

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.

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

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country’s energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

I love being in the United States Senate.

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.

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

I think governments can’t do much.

Senator McCain is Israel’s most unconditional ally in Mossad’s machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.

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.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

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

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

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

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

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.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

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.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

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.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

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?

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

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

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven’t elected a new one. There’s no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don’t miss it.

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.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

The fundamental question I believe is, ‚Is political Islam in our best interest?‘ If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?

All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

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

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

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

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.