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.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

The white man is destroying the world.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

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

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

The Democratic position seems to be everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free kittens, I don’t know.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

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.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

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.

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 New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

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.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‚Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.‘

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

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.

I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, ‚Oh, you know, I can use this word because I’m black.‘

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

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

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

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

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.

I’m not a big politics guy.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

Empire and liberty.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

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

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

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

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

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.

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

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.‘

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

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

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

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

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

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Senator McCain is Israel’s most unconditional ally in Mossad’s machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

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.