I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

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

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

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!

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

Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.

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

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.

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

Politics is applesauce.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

The label ‚liberal‘ or ‚conservative,‘ any – every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from ‚Iolanthe.‘ It goes, ‚Every gal and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.‘ What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

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

Every President wants to do right.

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.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

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.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

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.

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

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

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

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.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

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

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

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove – disapprove of their point of view.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

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.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

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.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

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

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

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

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

There’s no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.

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.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.