I know Gov. Christie. We’ve met a couple of times.

Politicians love regulating. That’s part of the whole power structure.

I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

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

I think America has always been polarized.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

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

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

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

‚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.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

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

There is no gambling like politics.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

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 presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

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

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

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.

If I go to Italy, I will certainly request to meet with Pope Francis, whom I admire very much.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

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?

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

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

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

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

I’m not a politician. And I don’t want to be.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

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

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

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

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.