I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they’re part of a family, not just a tour.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

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

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

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.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

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?

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

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

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

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

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

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.

Knowledge is true opinion.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

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

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

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

When you are president, being able to clearly articulate detailed plans to help the people of this country is a good thing. Knowing what you’re doing is a good thing. And let me tell you, Hillary Clinton absolutely knows what she’s doing.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

Democracy passes into despotism.

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

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.

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.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like – full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.

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

Politics is applesauce.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

The idea that putting Americans ‚first‘ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.

If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.

I think ‚Invisible‘ is a great song, but I don’t know how accessible it is.

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

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.

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