I don’t think President Trump is a racist.

With all due respect, I am against dumb.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

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!

Knowledge is true opinion.

To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who they think is the better player. It is what it is, but there is no rivalry beyond games and what happens on the pitch.

If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re going to have to take what they get.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Who’s to say what’s a good voice and not a good voice?

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

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

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.

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

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

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

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

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.

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

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

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

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

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you’re opposed to it. But when you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.

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.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

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.

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

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.

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.

I think America has always been polarized.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

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

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

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

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

Racism and sexism, misogyny and homophobia, they’re so visible. They’re out in the open. When they’re visible, it’s a lot easier to deal with them.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

Political courage is not political suicide.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.