I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn’t re-elected.

I don’t know what ‚normal‘ means, anyway.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, ‚black feminist‘ does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it’s just… womanish.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

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.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

I love being in the United States Senate.

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

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.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

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

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire – this time under the Shia label.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

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.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn’t like to look like anyone else.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

Robyn is who I am. Rihanna – that’s an idea of who I am.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

I just dress like… I’m an old black man. Sorry! Like I’m an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it’s still the ’50s.

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

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

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

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.