I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‚array‘ as far as political purposes were concerned.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

I don’t follow politics much.

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country’s energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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

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.

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

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 decided in 2020 to run for president.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

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

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

‚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.

‚Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.‘ Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

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

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

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 fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.

If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

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

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

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.

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?‘

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

Politics have no relation to morals.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

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

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn’t think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

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.

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

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.