I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

I’m personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I’m not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

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.

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

It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

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?

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

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

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

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.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

I’m glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

And frankly, I don’t understand – I mean, I’m obviously a card-carrying Democrat – but I can’t understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

A President cannot always be popular.

I supported Donald Trump.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

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

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

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

Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama’s entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

The FBI should not be a political body.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

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.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

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.

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

There is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception.