I am not a crook.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

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

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

I know Gov. Christie. We’ve met a couple of times.

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.

I don’t follow politics much.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

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

I do not pilfer victory.

Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I’ve been around. He’s fresh, he’s new, he’s insightful.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

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

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

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

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

How can a president not be an actor?

Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.

That government is best which governs least.

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

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‚light‘ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

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.‘

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.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

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

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

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

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you’re the mayor. The bad news is, now you’re the mayor.

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.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

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.

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.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

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.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

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.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.