I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I’m pretty strong on, on defense matters.

I’m not a big politics guy.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

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.

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!

I haven’t been very active in politics.

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

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.

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.

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

That government is best which governs least.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

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

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

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

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

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.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy’s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

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

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

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.

Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It’s a marathon.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

In our age there is no such thing as ‚keeping out of politics.‘ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

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

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

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

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

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

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

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

Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

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.

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

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

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.