I don’t follow politics much.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

Democracy is the road to socialism.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

You can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

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.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

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

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

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

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

There’s no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, ‚The government’s corrupt,‘ and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

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

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

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

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

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.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.

Senator McCain is Israel’s most unconditional ally in Mossad’s machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country’s energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books – and I wouldn’t put it past them – I’m in dead trouble.

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

We live in ugly times.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

I think governments can’t do much.

I am not a crook.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

There’s nothing like white trash at the White House.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Politics is applesauce.

I don’t like politicians, and I don’t like politics. I definitely don’t want to be associated with any of them.

Washington isn’t a city, it’s an abstraction.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

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

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.

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Facts are stubborn things.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

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!

All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

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?

As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.

Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.