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

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

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!

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy – well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I’m President, I never will.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

I’m the most boring person to talk to.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

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.

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

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

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you’re the mayor. The bad news is, now you’re the mayor.

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

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.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

Of course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

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

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.

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

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

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

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

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

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.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

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

Good writing is like a windowpane.

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

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

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

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

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

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

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

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

What can I say? I’m a talker.