I haven’t been very active in politics.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire – this time under the Shia label.

As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

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

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.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

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.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

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.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

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

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.

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

Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

I’m not a big politics guy.

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.

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.

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

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

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

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‚the rich‘ to pay ‚their fair share‘ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

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

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American.

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

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

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.

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?

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.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

Empire and liberty.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.