I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

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.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

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

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

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 FBI should not be a political body.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

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

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

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

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

The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

I’m not really conservative. I’m conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don’t any more.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

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

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

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.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

You’re not just voting for an individual, in my judgment, you’re voting for an agenda. You’re voting for a platform. You’re voting for a political philosophy.

Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, ‚If you don’t know how to make the right decision, you’re not a director.‘

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.

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.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

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.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

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.