I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

Empire and liberty.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

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

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

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

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Every President wants to do right.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

Politics have no relation to morals.

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

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

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

With all due respect, I am against dumb.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

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

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

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

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

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

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

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.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

I’m strictly for Stevenson. I don’t dig the intellectual bit, but I’m telling you, man, he knows the most.

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

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

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I’m pretty strong on, on defense matters.

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

I think Hillary Clinton is a phenomenal woman, and I’ve gotten to know her, and I think she’s made some pretty major contributions over the course of her life.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

Trust, but verify.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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!

There will be no whitewash in the White House.