I don’t even know what the issues are. I haven’t paid attention to politics in a long time. It’s actually not something that I really even enjoy. It’s way off my radar.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

I pay attention to politics and technology.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

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

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

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

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

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

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.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

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

The label ‚liberal‘ or ‚conservative,‘ any – every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from ‚Iolanthe.‘ It goes, ‚Every gal and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.‘ What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

I will not run for president. No, nope, not going to do it.

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.

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

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

Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

I live in a crazy time.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

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

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won’t tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, ‚Well, you know: It’s secret.‘

If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

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.

Democracy passes into despotism.

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

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

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

I don’t write policy for my government.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!