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

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

Here’s what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

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.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it’s because I’m Smart… But that is a lie: The real reason is because I’m an incurable Gambling addict.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

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.

If segregationists had their way, I would not be a member of the United States Senate today, I would not be a top contender to be president of the United States.

Facts are not interesting to me.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I’m informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I’m a very ardent patriot.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

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

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln – just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it.

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

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

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

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

I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.

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

It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

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

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

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.

There are some members of the House leadership whose only mission in life is to demonize the president.

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

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

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.