I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

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!

I think America has always been polarized.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

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.

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

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

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.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

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

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

I have a reputation for taking on governors a lot more powerful than me.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

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.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove – disapprove of their point of view.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

I’m not a big politics guy.

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.

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

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

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

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

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

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

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‚the rich‘ to pay ‚their fair share‘ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

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

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

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

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

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.