I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

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.

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.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

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 not a big politics guy.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

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

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

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

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

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

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.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

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

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

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.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

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

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

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

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

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.

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.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

Trump has no sense of shame.

I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

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.

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.