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

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

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

I pay attention to politics and technology.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

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.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

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.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

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

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

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

If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

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.

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

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

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

Every President wants to do right.

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

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don’t agree with, like bombing.