I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

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

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

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.

The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

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

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ‚How is the president?‘

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

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

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

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

I am not a crook.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

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.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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

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

Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama’s entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.

When you are president, being able to clearly articulate detailed plans to help the people of this country is a good thing. Knowing what you’re doing is a good thing. And let me tell you, Hillary Clinton absolutely knows what she’s doing.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

If I hadn’t been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

It sure is hell to be president.

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

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

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

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

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

I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

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

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

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

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.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.

The FBI should not be a political body.

I don’t write policy for my government.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

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.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.