I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

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

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

I will not run for president. No, nope, not going to do it.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won’t tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, ‚Well, you know: It’s secret.‘

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

My Democratic friends just can’t accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president – it’s called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a ‚Hurt Feelings Report‘ and let’s move on.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

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.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

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

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‚the rich‘ to pay ‚their fair share‘ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

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.

It was the Congress that imposed ‚Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,‘ it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

I think Hillary Clinton is a phenomenal woman, and I’ve gotten to know her, and I think she’s made some pretty major contributions over the course of her life.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

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?‘

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

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

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.

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.

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

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

I write the paragraph, then I’m crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it up because sometimes it’s almost illegible, and if I wait, I might not be able to read it the next day.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

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

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

Service of any type requires preparation.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

There are some members of the House leadership whose only mission in life is to demonize the president.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

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.