I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee – working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

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.

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

I’m going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we’ve had in a couple of hundred years.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

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

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

We are all the President’s men.

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.

I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money… but city and state governments cannot.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

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.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

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.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

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

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

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

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

I would be lying if I didn’t admit sadness that our wonderful airline is merging with another. Because I’m not American, the U.S. Department of Transportation stipulated I take some of my shares in Virgin America as non-voting shares, reducing my influence over any takeover. So there was sadly nothing I could do to stop it.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

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

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

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.

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

Everything isn’t political.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.